This is Your Brain on Trial
New Books in Science, Technology, and Society
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Are You More Likely to Commit Violence?
Machine learning can predict if a person is more likely to commit violence or not. The technique relies on a full brain scan of the individual, rather than looking specifically at any one area that is of interest. Because of systemic societial injustices like the algrithams going to see far more indigenous brains and people of colours brains,. because those people are more likely to be criminalized due to racism in the justice system.
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