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Academic essay / legal article (house oversight document)
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Summary
This document is page 163 of a House Oversight production (Bates HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_016383). It contains the text of an academic or philosophical essay discussing the dangers of 'mechanical objectivity' and the use of algorithms ('algorists') in criminal justice sentencing. The author argues against relying on 'black box' algorithms that hide trade secrets, citing Rebecca Wexler's 2018 work on intellectual property in the criminal justice system and drawing parallels to historical issues in physics with Kodak and Ilford film.
People (2)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Rebecca Wexler | Visiting fellow |
Yale Law School Information Society Project; cited for her work on trade secrets in criminal justice.
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| Goethe | Historical Figure |
Mentioned metaphorically regarding 'no royal road' to insight.
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| Name | Type | Context |
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| Yale Law School Information Society Project |
Affiliation of Rebecca Wexler.
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| Kodak |
Mentioned historically regarding trade secret film used in physics.
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| Ilford |
Mentioned historically regarding trade secret film used in physics.
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| Stanford Law Review |
Publisher of the cited article by Rebecca Wexler.
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| House Oversight Committee |
Source of the document (indicated by Bates stamp).
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described as 'visiting fellow at the Yale Law School Information Society Project'
Key Quotes (4)
"Better a machine, it is argued, than the vagaries of a judge’s judgment."Source
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"Proving things with unopenable black boxes can be a dangerous game for scientists, and doubly so for criminal justice."Source
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"In the courtroom, objectivity, trade secrets, and judicial transparency may pull in opposite directions."Source
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"Predictive analytics predicated on mechanical objectivity comes at a price."Source
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