Britain's AI-based benefit fraud detector unfairly targets minorities

Britain developed an AI-based system for detecting benefits fraud. The AI determined that some groups are more likely to commit benefit fraud than others. A review shows that the AI was wrong.

An artificial intelligence system used by the UK government to detect welfare fraud is showing bias according to people's age, disability, marital status and nationality, the Guardian can reveal.

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