Preprint
Aug 2026
The Overstated Cost of AI Fairness in Criminal Justice
It is shown that racial bias is not only present in the COMPAS dataset but is also amplified by the models trained on it, which undercuts both the assumption that algorithmic decision-making offers a neutral improvement over human judgment and the weaker claim that it merely mirrors preexisting human bias.
Ignacio Cofone, Warut Khern-am-nuai University of Oxford, M. University
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