now the judge has to consider a couple factors here there's public safety and flight risk on the one hand but then there are the real costs social and financial of the tension on the defendant on their family on the other now historically what happens is the judge looks into this defendant's eyes and tries to say ok you're a high risk person or you're a low risk person i trust your i don't trust you now what algorithms are helping us to do is make those decisions better the compass algorithm was brought in to offset balance out inconsistency is in human judgment the assumption being of course that a piece of code would always be less biased and listen to prejudice however compass is faced several criticisms primarily accusations of racial bias inaccuracy and lack of transparency in 2016 a man named eric loomis sentenced to 6 years in prison took his case to the wood sconce and state supreme court his allegation was that the use of compass violated his right to due process it made it impossible for him to appeal his sentence since

the algorithm is a black box impenetrable unquestionable. eric loomis didn't get very far the supreme court ruled the use of compass in his sentencing was legal the verdict tell about revealed the ways in which the ever increasing use of algorithms in spain normalized the court had a funny argument saying that nobody knows where these decisions are coming from and so it's it's ok you know it's not that the state has a particular advantage over the defendant but that everyone is at this sort of equal playing field and it's not that there's an informational advantage for one side or the other to me i find that somewhat dissatisfying i do think that in these high stakes decisions particularly the criminal justice system we don't just want to have an equal playing field of no one knows but i think we need to have an equal playing field of everybody knows we need to have this transparency bill clinton's.

for the record equivalent the company that sells compass software has defended its algorithm it points to research commissioned that the company meets industry standards for fantasy and accuracy with a compass most of the privately developed algorithms meet acceptable standards for transparency is another question even when they are used in the provision of public services algorithms are often closed to the public they cannot be scrutinized regardless of that sharon says that in certain cases he would still be comfortable being judged by a group bust algorithm so i do think it's true that many of the people in the criminal justice system are the most disadvantaged and the reality is they probably don't have a lot of say in their futures in their fates and how these algorithms are going to evaluate them. whether this would happen if more powerful people are being judged by these algorithms i don't know now me personally i would rather be judged by

a well designed algorithm a human in part because i believe the statistical. methods for something risky in fact are better than humans in many situations and it can at least one as well designed eliminate a lot of these biases that that human decision makers often exhibit the united states has a massive racial discrimination problem and public services that's real so it is really understandable when agencies want to create tools that can help them keep an eye on frontline decision making in order to maybe identify discriminatory decision making and correct it the problem is that that's not actually the point at which discriminated discrimination is entering the system and this is one of my huge concerns about these kinds of systems is they tend to only understand discrimination as something that. is the result of an individual who is making

ever actionable decisions. and they don't these systems are not as good at identifying bias that is systemic and structural the promise of algorithms is that we can mitigate the by sees that human decision makers always have you know we always were always responding to the way somebody looks who is we somebody acts and even if we try as hard as we can and if we really have these good intentions of the try to just focus on what matters i think is exceptionally difficult now that again is the promise of algorithms the reality is much more complicated the reality is that algorithms are trained on past human decisions they're built by fallible humans them selves in so there's still this possibility that that by sees creep into the development and application of these algorithms but certainly the promise is that we can least make the situation better than it currently is one of the things i'm really concerned about about these systems is that they seem to be part of a philosophy that increasingly sees human decision making as

a black box and unknowable and computer decision making as transparent and accountable. and that to me is really frightening because of course computer decision making is not as objective and is not as unbiased as it seems at 1st glance we build bias into our technologies just like we build them into our right we teach our technologies to discriminate. but on the other hand people's decision making is actually not that opaque we can ask people about why they're making the decisions they're making that can be part of their professional development and i think this idea that human decision making is somehow unknowable is a sort of ethical abandonment of the possibility to grow and to change that we really really need as

a society to truly address the systemic roots of racism and classism and sexism in our society so it feels to me like we're saying will never understand why people make discriminatory decisions so let's just let the computer make it and i think that's a mistake i think that's it a tragic mistake that will lead to a lot of suffering for a lot of people. so going back to the question that started us on this journey can we trust elders that's the biggest thing i've learned from speaking with the genius of many others is that i've actually got the question wrong. it isn't really so much about whether algorithms are trustworthy it's more about the quality of the data that feeds in egypt it's those designing actually. human biases human imperfections that's what

we see reflected in our algorithms and without better oversight we risk reinforcing our prejudices and social inequalities. cut you off to your own. are they are programmed to a shame that the past is the future that they want as well and by the past that's often things to fear of stigma and bias and stereotypes and rejection and discrimination and really what we need is to create systems the allow for. a new future scenario is that different from the all of course we can build better tools out there and make tools and i see them everywhere that i go but what makes a difference about good tools about just tools is building those tools with a broader set of values from the very beginning so not just efficiency not just cost savings but dignity and self-determination and justice and fairness and accountability and fairer process and all of those things that we really care about

as a democracy have to be built in after the beginning from step one in every single tool . we're actually getting our hands on the data we're analyzing the data. now one thing that we've done is we try to make as much of the state of the old bulls possible so to encourage people to look at. this one of our one of our projects is called the stanford open policing project we released lots of data in the criminal justice system we released code for people to play with the data and i encourage everyone to look at that and try to understand what's going on. you know maybe they'll discover a pattern that you construct solves my biggest piece of advice is to never underestimate your influence. you know you might be fighting some machine. some computer system that you've never been able to mate let's say to his him

inflicted huge homeless suffering but no words can make government scared your voices combined can make. sin quote sit up and pay attention to gather we can shape the way these tools are created and the ways that they impact as a political community if we want better outcomes from these systems we have to we have to claim our space as decision making and decision makers at these tables. and we can't do that if we think that these technologies are somehow gods they're built just just the way we build our kids we build these technologies and we have a right to be in dialogue with them. think of some of the biggest companies in the world today all of them big tech with

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opposition and the army announce a joint ruling body formerly disbanding the military. headquarters and. also ahead the most senior catholic cleric convicted of child sex abuse has his appeal dismissed in australia. i think people that vote for a democrat. i think it shows either a total lack of knowledge to a greater. jewish groups donald trump or targeting american jews who vote for the democrats. qatar is building the world's 1st we usable world cup stadium on the inspiration around sustainability.

fellow sudan has formally disbanded the military council that took power after deposing longtime president bashir the military and protest leaders have announced an 11 member of sovereign council to run the country for 3 years until elections are held it will be led by lieutenant general. for the 1st 21 months has been heading the military council which has ruled the country since she was ousted in april from harts whom here is her morgan. the decision by sudan's military council to appoint a sovereign council comes in line with a power sharing agreement that was signed between the military and the opposition coalition known as the forces of freedom and change on saturday now asper that agreement the rule of the suffering council will be largely ceremonial and it will be overseen the executive council which will be having members nominated by the opposition coalition and the legislative assembly which 2 thirds of its seats will go to the opposition coalition as well the sovereign council will have 11 members 5

from the military 5 from the opposition coalition and 11th member which has been agreed upon by both sides it will be sworn in on wednesday morning and after that a prime minister who has already been nominated by the opposition will be sworn in in the evening this marks the beginning of sudan's transitional period which will last for 39 months the 1st time $21.00 will be headed by the military and the remaining 18 will be headed by civilians it's taken more than 8 months of protest and more than 4 months of negotiations for the sudanese to reach to this point and start a transitional period but both sides the opposition and the military say they're now optimistic that soon sudan will start its transitional phase and that the journey to civilian rule has become a court in australia has upheld convictions against cardinal george pell the highest ranking vatican official found guilty of child sex abuse was sentenced to 6 years in prison in march on charges of abusing 2 choir boys when he was already bishop of melbourne 20 years ago his lawyers say the jury's verdict was

unreasonable as they were blocked from showing a crucial video hell will be eligible for parole in october 20 twentieth's to goree a collage there was a those court proceedings in melbourne and sent this report. that was 3 grounds under which george pell was appealing his conviction the main grounds was that the jury could not have come to a reasonable decision beyond reasonable doubt that he was guilty of abusing these 2 choir boys back in the 19th ninety's in melbourne when he was the archbishop botch 2 of those judges decided that it was raised whilst one of them rights concerns that he thought it would not have been raised to go for the jury to come to the decision that it kind see now they also had 2 other grounds of appeal one of those was that he wasn't a right in front of the jury it was so many potential juries at the time that there

was a spill in the room and some of those potential jurors were watching a fire video late so what happens next well george pell has been taken back to the melbourne assess the prison way he's been setting out the sentence he'll be $81.00 before he's eligible for parole botts this isn't necessarily the end pete defense team for george pell could potentially take this to the high court but it'll be up to the high court to decide whether or not it's it will take on the case whether or not there are enough grounds for the christ to go before the high court so i won't victims and the complaints ins involved in this case and other victims of child sex abuse have welcomes today's decision it may not be either yes politics in italy is facing a leadership crisis after prime minister just quit following cracks in the governing coalition accused his deputy the far right leader motto salvini of being

an opportunist italy's presidents will now talk to party leaders to see if a new governments can be formed so a new go has more from rome. as leader of the government. of a scene one of the most challenging coalitions and. sometimes battling one political crisis after another contests aimed at being a stabilizing force between 2 vastly different political parties the far right league and the anti establishment 5 star movement it proved to be an impossible task and qantas said he would be offering his resignation but there was no question over who he thought was responsible. let me say that interior minister has shown that he is following his own interests and those of his party. in a blistering attack against any country accused him of unleashing further turmoil and in doing so endangering italy's already started to con a me but the leak party leader was unrepentant. i would do again everything

i did everything with the great strength of being a free man therefore it means i'm not afraid of the judgment of the italians overshadowing this impasse has been my terror cell beanies own political agenda vocally anti migrant he's also waged war on the n.g.o.s that have attempted to rescue asylum seekers crossing the mediterranean and it's a tactic that has had success support for his views have increased across the country turning his party into a force that cannot be ignored. in the middle of this political drama the spanish rescue vessel hovering off the coast of lampedusa with dozens of vulnerable people on.