Intro Blog: My AI Criminal Justice Experience
Hello, I am Andrew Cho, a sophomore at BVNW High School in Kansas City. To me, artificial intelligence is the future. The modern world revolves around technological innovations, and there is no denying that it has or will impact people’s lives. Because of AI’s global significance, I started studying AI by attending an AI Scholar program, where I met like-minded people to learn about different applications of AI. My mentor, Aditya Chander, helped me grasps a solid understanding of AI and ethics, where we looked at different AI models and their accuracy to rightfully predict a criminal’s recidivation rate (The rate in which a criminal will commit another crime). The learning experience was gratifying, as I discussed real-life issues with my peers and came up with solutions to racial biases in AI systems. After this course, my interest in AI and Criminal Justice grew, so in this blog series, I will be diving deeper into racial biases in AI systems and the definition of fairness. Especially in the current political climate, racism and other inequalities still exist, impacting many worldwide. Learning and understanding why these biases exist in AI models/data sets and coming up with solutions to create fairer models are essential to understanding the issue’s core. Hopefully, this blog would educate readers on why fairness is key to a successful model and how we could define fairness, in the context of Criminal Justice.
Andrew Cho is a Student Ambassador in the Inspirit AI Student Ambassadors Program. Inspirit AI is a pre-collegiate enrichment program that exposes curious high school students globally to AI through live online classes. Learn more at https://www.inspiritai.com/.