I was honoured to be asked by the Bar of Ireland to participate in Justice Week 2022 by contributing my thoughts and views to a podcast about Artifical Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System.
Here’s the podcast:
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other articles, books & podcasts
If you find the podcast interesting, here are some links to other resources you may find interesting:
articles
- Machine Bias: Risk Assessment in Criminal Sentencing (ProPublica, 23 May 2016)
- Artificial Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System (PixelPlex, 13 Jan 2021)
- AI Will have Robot Judges Soon. What about Human Judges? (Analytics Insight, 4 Mar 2021)
- AI is sending people to jail—and getting it wrong (MIT Review, 21 Jan 2019)
- An Garda Síochána is Considering Using Artificial Intelligence for Policing (Dublin Inquirer, 13 Jan 2021)
- The Rise of Predictive Policing (Garda Post, 24 Feb 2016)
- 4 Benefits And 4 Drawbacks Of Predictive Policing (Liberties, 12 Jul 2021)
- A Policy Framework for Responsible Limits on Facial Recognition (World Economic Forum, Oct 2021)
- Why is the Government bucking the trend on facial recognition for policing? (Irish Times, 28 May 2022)
- Gardaí leaving GPS radios behind amid ‘big brother’ fears (Irish Times, 29 May 2022)
- Facial recognition technology: A solution to problems that hardly exist (Irish Times, 2 Jun 2022)
- Is giving facial recognition technology to Gardaí a good idea? (Irish Times, 7 Jun 2022)
book
podcasts
miscellaneous
- MMC (London based VC firm) study in 2019 found that almost 45% of European start-ups that advertise their AI capabilities do not even use AI. (Forbes – link)
- US Magazine The Atlantic said AI had become ‘meaningless’ and is ‘often just a fancy name for a computer program’. (The Atlantic – link)
- Tesla founder Elon Musk has described AI as humanity’s “biggest existential threat” (Guardian – link) and that it poses a “fundamental risk to the existence of civilization”. (The Verge – link)
- Stephen Hawking has said that AI could spell the end of the human race. (BBC – link; Guardian – link)
- Vladimir Putin has said that the country that takes the lead in AI would rule the world. (CNN – link)