COMPAS

tags
Algorithmic Discrimination

COMPAS is a recidivism risk assessment system produced by Equivant. The exact algorithm is secret, but it has been empirically shown to be biased against Black people1 and young people.

Footnotes:

1

Julia Angwin et al., “Machine Bias” (ProPublica, May 23, 2016), https://www.propublica.org/article/machine-bias-risk-assessments-in-criminal-sentencing.