SENATORS QUESTION DOJ FUNDING FOR AI-POWERED POLICING TECH
Aug 28, 2021
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A Democratic senator said the U.S. Justice Department needs to look into whether the algorithm-powered police technologies it funds contribute to racial bias in law enforcement and lead to wrongful arrests.
Sen. Ron Wyden, an Oregon Democrat, was responding to an investigation published about the possibility of bias in courtroom evidence produced by an algorithm-powered gunshot detection technology called
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