AI was supposed to make the UK benefits system more efficient. Instead it’s brought bias and hunger.
- Written by Iris Lim, Postdoctoral Researcher, Department of Anthropology and Sociology, SOAS, University of London
AndrewMcKenna/ShutterstockA freedom of information request has revealed that an AI system used by the UK government for assessing benefits cases is apparently getting it wrong by a “statistically significant” amount. The admission to journalists at the Guardian emerged after a fairness analysis into universal credit claimants in...
