Oregon dropping AI tool used in child abuse cases

Photo caption: FILE – Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., speaks during a Senate Finance Committee hearing on Oct. 19, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. […] Photo credit: Mandel Ngan/Pool Photo via AP, File. Article by Sally Ho and Garance Burke. AP News – June 2, 2022.

Child welfare officials in Oregon will stop using an algorithm to help decide which families are investigated by social workers, opting instead for a new process that officials say will make better, more racially equitable decisions. The move comes weeks after an Associated Press review of a separate algorithmic tool in Pennsylvania that had originally inspired Oregon officials to develop their model, and was found to have flagged a disproportionate number of Black children for “mandatory” neglect investigations when it first was in place. […]

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