AI incident
COMPAS recidivism scores racially biased
Northpointe · 2016
Organisation
Northpointe
Year
2016
Failure mode
Disparate impact
Severity
critical
Domain
Justice & democratic processes
Source
ProPublica, 2016
What happened
A criminal-risk score showed large racial disparities in false-positive rates, used in sentencing decisions.
What would have prevented it
Fairness audit across groups + explainability + human oversight
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.