Will You Commit Crimes in the Future? Recidivism Algorithms and Discrimination
COMPAS is an algorithm that tries to predict who will commit crimes in the future. What could possibly go wrong?
Follow Eric as he tries to determine if the COMPAS algorithm is racially biased. Explore some of the philosophy that underpins statistical evidence and explore some of the statistics that support accusations of discrimination.
0:00 Loomis v. Wisconsin
1:52 Why suspect discrimination?
4:50 The Accuracy Objection: Objectivity & Pragmatism
6:25 The Accuracy Objection: Relevance
9:33 Understanding the Chart
12:29 Northpointe's argument that COMPAS is not biased
14:27 ProPublica's argument that COMPAS is biased
19:04 Mutually Unsatisfiable Measures
22:26 What does it mean???
23:52 What happened to Eric? What's next?
This interdisciplinary mathematics and humanities video was made for the third Summer of Math Exposition #SoME3 organized by @3blue1brown and sponsored by @janestreet. You can find more entries to this competition by searching for SoME3 in the youtube searchbox. A playlist of all the entries should be made available by the end of the month.