WF-F4MEY5
Algorithm Used by the Malaysian Judiciary Reportedly Recommended Unusually High Sentencing to a Drug Possession Case
The AI system used by the Malaysian judiciary which explicitly considered age, employment, and socio-economic data provided sentencing to a drug possession case that was alleged by lawyer to be disproportionately high for the crime committed.
- Date it happened
- 2020-02-19
- Organisation involved
- Malaysian judiciary, Malaysian courts
- Product, system or model
- The sentencing AI used in the Malaysian judiciary would analyse a database of cases between 2014 and 2019 in Sabah and Sarawak in order to deliver a recommendation for jail sentencing to the court.
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