Artificial fairness? Trust in algorithmic police decision-making.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Test whether (1) people view a policing decision made by an algorithm as more or less trustworthy than when an officer makes the same decision; (2) people who are presented with a specific instance of algorithmic policing have greater or lesser support for the general use of algorithmic policing in general; and (3) people use trust as a heuristic through which to make sense of an unfamiliar technology like algorithmic policing.

Methods

An online experiment tested whether different decision-making methods, outcomes and scenario types affect judgements about the appropriateness and fairness of decision-making and the general acceptability of police use of this particular technology.

Results

People see a decision as less fair and less appropriate when an algor

SUBMITTER: Hobson Z 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8435155 | biostudies-literature | 2023

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature