Due Process and AI

As we all now know, AI plays a now-pervasive role in our lives, and often without our knowledge. When an an AI system links a person’s face to a still from surveillance video, recommends whether to detain a person in jail, or responds with “situational awareness” to a national security threat, what assurance is there that this system can be trusted to safely perform as promised? AI is being used throughout government in hundreds of settings, including those that affect people’s core…