247. Automated Welfare – the Simple Violence of Complex Machines
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The Future of Dutch Language Ability
The Netherlands is not a Scandinavian country, but it very much is part of that, like, Northern European, like, strong welfare states. They also have, like, very strong, you know, kind of neoliberal flavors to them, where it is about rooting out fraud, detecting fraud, punishing fraud. The algorithm we're talking about with the Wired and our article is, as you said, a 2017 machine learning algorithm built by Accenture, but for Rotterdam. So it's just, it's the welfare system for one city, a big city, but just one city. And this was just one of these systemic risk scoring systems used to detect fraud. You know, I'll
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