The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has come under scrutiny after an algorithm wrongly flagged 200,000 people as potential fraudsters in the context of welfare benefits, as reported by the Guardian. The error led to unnecessary investigations into housing benefit claims, costing approximately £4.4 million. The algorithm incorrectly identified these claims as high risk.
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Thousands of UK households "had their housing benefit claims unnecessarily investigated based on... an #algorithm that wrongly identified their claims as high risk.... [A]bout £4.4m has been spent on officials carrying out checks that did not save any money." #ethics #tech #gov https://t.co/RlzV9YYfvR
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What happens when we are wrongly marked by AI as fraudsters? The UK’s Department for Work and Pensions wrongly flagged 200,000 people as potential fraudsters in the context of welfare benefits. https://t.co/bcbb7efmAu https://t.co/7JivYOdpYJ
'We are so over reliant on technology, this will happen.' @PaulCoxComedy @joshxhowie @LeoKearse DWP algorithm wrongly flags 200,000 people for possible fraud and error | Guardian https://t.co/lD3wDLoJSn
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