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"In 2017, the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands deployed an artificial
intelligence (AI) system to determine how likely welfare recipients were to
commit fraud. After analysing the data, the system developed biases: it flagged
as “high risk” people who identified as female, young, with kids, and of low
proficiency in the Dutch language.
The Rotterdam system was suspended in 2021 after an external ethics review, but
it demonstrates what can go wrong when governments adopt AI systems without
proper oversight. As more local governments turn to AI in an effort to provide
real-time and personalised services for residents, a “smarter” environment and
better, safer systems, the risks are rising.
As part of our ongoing research, we studied 170 local governments around the
world that use various AI systems.
We found AI is already touching nearly every aspect of public service delivery,
and most of the governments didn’t even have a published policy about it."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
