Big data and AI outperform human judgment in high-stakes decisions.

Evidence

Given that there is significant bias in U.S. criminal justice2 and almost no interventions have successfully curtailed it, we think the time is right to introduce technology as a way to correct for human error. For some years now, it has been known that big data and AI often outperform human judgment alone (Berk, 2008; Lazer et al., 2009). — Joseph Avery, Jim Sidanius, Joel Cooper, Gregory Davis, Amanda N., Bias in the Law, 1171

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Cheaper machine attention is displacing human judgment in evaluation. — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 231; A liberatory universalism opposes Big Data’s totalizing reduction of life to data — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 637; Networked machine learning compounds individual errors into population-level knowledge faster than humans can. — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 1319 (+2 more)