The Secret Algorithm That Could Send You to Prison, Take Your Kids, or Crash Your Car
Fast forward to USA, 2017. A man faces murder charges. And the main witness against him is a computer algorithm.
The algorithm analyzes complex DNA samples. It decides if the DNA of the accused is present in a sample.
Naturally, the defendant wants to know how exactly the algorithm works.
And he has good cause to wonder. His earlier conviction for the same murder had relied on a different DNA testing machine.
But scientists later decided the algorithm wasn’t quite right. The evidence that convicted him was changed from positive to inconclusive.
He had been sitting in prison, convicted of murder, based on a faulty algorithm!
https://www.activistpost.com/2018/10/the-secret-algorithm-that-could-send-you-to-prison-take-your-kids-or-crash-your-car.html
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