THE 360°AI BLOG

Predictive justice covers AI tools that forecast judicial outcomes and reoffending risk. In the US, the COMPAS algorithm was accused of racial bias and later upheld in court under strict limits. In France, the DataJust project was abandoned. The EU AI Act classifies these systems as "high-risk." While AI can streamline civil litigation, using it in criminal justice raises serious questions about transparency, discrimination, and accountability.

Algorithmic bias is one of the most serious risks embedded in modern AI, and one of the least visible. From Amazon's sexist hiring tool to COMPAS in the US criminal justice system, AI systems have been shown to replicate and amplify the inequalities of the societies that created them. This article explains where these biases come from, how they snowball over time, and what regulators, developers, and users can do to detect and correct them before they cause irreversible harm.