The Program on Understanding Law, Science, and Evidence (PULSE)

Modern algorithmic design far exceeds the limits of human cognition in many ways.Armed with large data sets, programmers promise that their algorithms can betterpredict which prisoners are most likely to recidivate and where future crimes arelikely to occur. Software designers further hope to use large data sets to uncoverrelationships between genes and disease that would take human researchers muchlonger to identify.