247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines
This Machine Kills
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The Discriminatory Model of Fraud
The Dutch city of Rotterdam has been using a machine learning algorithm to spot fraud in its welfare system. The program uses poor language skills, proxy language skills or proxy for race and poor language skills are used to insist that there's fraud going on. People with vulnerabilities such as having children are coded as more likely to do fraud as well. If they copy right strike this episode, I'm gonna listen. They're gonna take it from my cold dead hands. It sounds too much like Mickey. You've heard of how to blow up a pipeline. Let's see how toblow up the magic kingdom."
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