The DOJ is investigating an AI tool that could be hurting families in Pennsylvania

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The DOJ is investigating an AI tool that could be hurting families in Pennsylvania
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The AI model's overreliance on potentially skewed historical data risks “automating past inequalities,” particularly long standing biases against people with disabilities and mental health problems.

, multiple formal complaints regarding the AFST have been filed via the Justice Dept.’s Civil Rights Division, citing the’s prior investigations into its potential problems. Anonymous sources within the Justice Dept. say officials are concerned that the AFST’s overreliance on

risks “automating past inequalities,” particularly long standing biases against people with disabilities and mental health problems.explains the Allegheny Family Screening Tool utilizes a “pioneering” AI program designed to supposedly help overworked social workers in the greater Pittsburgh area determine which families require further investigation regarding child welfare claims.

The AFST’s black box design reportedly takes into account numerous case factors, including “personal data and birth, Medicaid, substance abuse, mental health, jail and probation records, among other government data sets,” to determine further investigations for neglect.

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