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Roundtable on Uses of Artificial Intelligence in the Criminal Justice System

 

Dunedin, December 11-12, 2017

 

 


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Monday 11th December

 
ORIENTATION

 
12 - 1 pm  
Introduction  
Colin Gavaghan
Associate Professor of Law, Otago
 
Alistair Knott
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Otago
 
James Maclaurin
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Otago
 

Lunch (provided)

 
VALIDATION AND ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES

 
2.00 - 3.15 pm  
Evaluating the Strength of Criminal Justice Forecasting Models in Philadelphia, Durham, Hampshire, and Beyond: The Importance of Applying Costs to Forecasting Errors  
Geoff Barnes 
Director of Criminology, Western Australia Police Force
Affiliated Lecturer in Evidence-Based Policing, Cambridge
[2.00 - 2.30 pm]

Discussion
[2.30 - 3.15 pm]
   
3.15 - 4.30 pm
The accuracy and utility of risk assessment tools  
Maaike Helmus 
Lecturer in Psychology, Victoria University of Wellington
[3.15 - 3.45 pm]

Discussion
[3.45 - 4.30pm]
Tea and coffee
4.45 - 6.00 pm  
Advanced Analytics and its Use in Government: A question of Trust and Value  
James Mansell
Independent Consultant, Data Science, Noos Ltd
[4.45 - 5.15 pm]
Discussion [5.15 - 6.00 pm]

Tuesday 12th December

 
FAIRNESS AND BIAS

 
9.00 - 10.15 am  
Designing fair predictive tools  
Sam Corbett-Davies  
Ph.D. Candidate, Stanford University
[9.00 - 9.30 am]
   
Discussion
[9.30 - 10.15 am]

Tea and coffee

 
10.30 am - 11.45 am  
Biases in data gathering in the criminal justice system, and their effect on predictive systems  
William Isaac
Ph.D. Candidate, Michigan State University
Open Society Foundation Fellow
[10.30 – 11.00 am]

Discussion

[11.00 - 11.45 am]

Lunch (provided)

 
ASSESSMENT AND STANDARDS  
   
12.45 - 2.00 pm  
What standards should we apply when assessing the performance of predictive tools deployed in New Zealand?  
Len Cook
Families Commissioner and Chair of Superu Board
Former NZ Government Statistician and UK National Statistician
[12.45 - 1.15 pm]

Discussion

[1.15 - 2.00 pm]

Tea and coffee

 
REGULATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY  
   
2.00 - 3.15.pm
A method for building and evaluating predictive systems in social services        
Tim Dare
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Auckland 
Data Ethics Advisor, Ministry of Social Development
[2.00 - 2.30 pm]

Discussion

[2.30 - 3.15 pm]
Tea and coffee
3.30 - 4.30 pm
Ideas for regulatory mechanisms     
Colin Gavaghan
Associate Professor of Law, Otago
 
Alistair Knott
Associate Professor of Computer Science, Otago
 
James Maclaurin
Associate Professor of Philosophy, Otago
 
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