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b'We encounter algorithms all the time. There are algorithms that can guess within a fraction of a percentage point whether you\\u2019ll like a certain movie on Netflix, a post on Facebook, or a link in a Google search.\\n\\nBut Risk Assessment Tools now being adopted by criminal justice systems all across the country - from Arizona, to Kentucky, to Pennsylvania, to New Jersey - are made to guess whether you\\u2019re likely to flee the jurisdiction of your trial, or commit a crime again if you are released.\\n\\nWith stakes as high as this \\u2014 human freedom \\u2014 some are asking for greater caution and scrutiny regarding the tools being developed.\\n\\nChris Bavitz, managing director of the Cyberlaw Clinic at Harvard Law School, helped draft an open letter to the state legislature of Massachusetts about Risk Assessment Tools, co-signed by a dozen researchers working on the Ethics and Governance of Artificial Intelligence. He spoke with Gretchen Weber about why we need more transparency and scrutiny in the adoption of these tools.\\n\\nRead the open letter here: https://cyber.harvard.edu/publications/2017/11/openletter'