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dogfoodeater@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

Here in Australia they rolled out an automated system to calculate welfare overpayments and issue debts. It didn’t quite work of course and hundreds of thousands of the poorest Australian were issued with false debts, some of whom died or committed suicide before they could be repaid. People still keep floating the idea of automation and AI in our welfare systems…

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