#algorithmicdiscrimination — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/20510/ Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over AI consumer protection law #AlgorithmicDiscrimination #ArtificialIntelligence #Colorado #ConservativePoliticalActionConference #ConsumerProtection #ElonMusk #JaredPolis #JewishSurnames #Musk #StatementOfPurpose #xAI

"In October 2021, we sent a freedom-of-information request to the Social Insurance Agency attempting to find out more. It immediately rejected our request. Over the next three years, we exchanged hundreds of emails and sent dozens of freedom-of-information requests, nearly all of which were rejected. We went to court, twice, and spoke to half a dozen public authorities.

Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet obtained an unpublished dataset containing thousands of applicants to Sweden’s temporary child support scheme, which supports parents taking care of sick children. Each of them had been flagged as suspicious by a predictive algorithm deployed by the Social Insurance Agency. Analysis of the dataset revealed that the agency’s fraud prediction algorithm discriminated against women, migrants, low-income earners and people without a university education.

Months of reporting — including conversations with confidential sources — demonstrate how the agency has deployed these systems without scrutiny despite objections from regulatory authorities and even its own data protection officer."

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/swedens-suspicion-machine/?utm_source=pocket_shared

#Sweden #SocialInsurance #ChildSupport #Algorithms #AlgorithmicDiscrimination #AlgorithmicBias