The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse – The Markup

The NYC Algorithm Deciding Which Families Are Under Watch for Child Abuse – The Markup

How a family’s neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look Illustration by Adriana Heldiz, CalMatters; iStock Karlena Hamblin was sitting on a stool in her Brownsville, Brooklyn apartment waiting for the Administration for Children’s Services to knock on her door for a weekly check-in. She’d just fed her infant daughter, who she held cradled in her arms.  ACS, which is responsible for investigating child welfare in N…

New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns

Colin Lecher / The Markup: New York City's AI tool, launched in 2018 to score families at risk for child abuse using factors like their neighborhood, is raising racial bias concerns  —  How a family's neighborhood, age, and mental health might get their case a deeper look … Karlena Hamblin was sitting on a stool …