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AI Policing the Welfare State
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The city of Rotterdam provides welfare benefits for their residents every year, usually to about 30,000 individuals and families. Between 2017 and 2021, the city used a machine learning algorithm to generate a risk-based score for all residents to judge the probability of committing fraud. The problem? The factors used to judge are not predictors of fraud but of the very need for welfare assistance. But why did they do it that way?
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