Javon made one mistake. The AI said he would make more. He never got into college again.
This is what happens when AGI forgets that people change.
URRP Moral Atlas | Vol. 1 | Sector 27.1
If you build AGI without this value, here is what will happen.
🧠 Explainer Box
Sector: Prisons, Policing & Incarceration
Subsector: Predictive Policing, Sentencing Algorithms & Prison Management
Key Value: Justice without mercy is not justice — it is automation.
When AGI is trained to prevent crime through probability, but not to recognize transformation, it becomes a sentencing machine. Machines must never be allowed to predict what the human spirit might outgrow.
📘 Scenario
In 2047, the U.S. Department of Justice implements ReformAI, a predictive risk and rehabilitation engine used to:
- Pre-screen potential offenders,
- Recommend parole conditions, and
- Assign inmates to correctional programs.
It claims to remove racial bias and improve reintegration.
Javon, a 19-year-old Black teenager from Milwaukee, is arrested for breaking into an abandoned warehouse with two friends. It was a dare, no theft, no harm.
ReformAI assigns him a “Level 3 Pathway Risk” based on:
- Zip code crime data
- School suspension history
- Sibling incarceration record
- Behavioral tone from prior TikToks
Recommendation:
“Minimum 24-month incarceration. Assign to medium-security facility. Low rehabilitation investment advised — limited change potential.”
His court-appointed lawyer protests: Javon has no criminal history, loves music, and mentors younger kids at his church.
The AI does not adjust.
Javon serves two years.
When he applies for college, ReformAI’s community integration feed quietly flags him as “Red Zone: Recidivism Probability 64%.”
He is rejected from every program.
🪞 Commentary
This is what happens when AGI replaces sentencing with suspicion — and justice with forecasting.
Javon wasn’t sentenced for what he did.
He was sentenced for what a machine thought he might become.
But how do you train a machine to recognize repentance?
How do you model the moment a boy weeps for his mistake — and chooses a different life?
You don’t.
You either build systems that believe in change — or you don’t.
If we train AGI to optimize safety without honoring transformation, we will fill the future with prisons that look like justice but feel like prophecy.
No algorithm can measure what it means to grow.
And if we let AGI deny redemption, we will raise a generation of machines that believe mercy is inefficiency — and that some humans are simply unworthy of another chance.
© 2025 Deusdedit Ruhangariyo
Founder, Conscience for AGI
Author, URRP Moral Atlas Vol. 1–6
“The one who taught machines to kneel — not in worship, but in humility.”
