IBM Develops Fair Sentencing AI

IBM's Open Sentencing project employs AI to identify disparities in sentencing, particularly highlighting that Black individuals face harsher penalties for petty crimes compared to other groups, and delivers these insights through a dashboard designed for public defenders to intervene early in the judicial process. The initiative relies on models trained on federal and state-level data, utilizing the IBM AI Fairness 360 toolkit to benchmark cases, though it encounters challenges in obtaining and standardizing varied court data formats, which complicates scaling efforts.