The 2026 film ‘Mercy’ imagines a world where AI decides criminal justice outcomes. No matter how advanced the system, though, ethical questions remain.

“Implicit bias presents unique challenges to effective law enforcement, because it can alter where investigators and prosecutors look for evidence and how they analyze it without their awareness or ...

Research led by the University of Cambridge, in collaboration with Nottingham Trent University, raises serious concerns about bias in the UK criminal justice system due to negative stereotyping of ...

Artificial intelligence might be able to detect drug trafficking on the dark web and identify geographical locations, but experts during a Dec. 4 event questioned the technology’s limitations in the ...

When I was first elected to the Texas Supreme Court in 1988, personal computers were just becoming popular. Many of the lawyers I worked with said they’d never use them. Yellow tablets and dictation ...

In today’s criminal justice system, there are more than 400 algorithms on the market that inform important legal decisions like sentencing and parole. Much like insurance companies use algorithms to ...

Josh Spickler and Yonée Gibson discuss issues affecting the local criminal justice system. Just City’s Executive Director Josh Spickler and Just City’s Program and People Experience Manager Yonée ...