San Francisco says it will use AI to reduce bias when charging people with crimes

San Francisco is announcing a “bias mitigation tool” that uses basic AI techniques to automatically redact information from police reports that could identify a suspect’s race. It’s designed to be a way to keep prosecutors from being influenced by racial bias when deciding whether someone gets charged with a crime. The tool will be ready and is scheduled to be implemented on July 1st.
The tool will not only strip out descriptions of race, but also descriptors like eye co