AI and Benefit Fraud

Apparently DWP are making further use of AI as a weapon to fight benefit fraud. What's the betting the machine won't have learned as much as hoped and people will wrongly have benefit claims rejected?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-66133665

Maybe #Ignatius, the JCP's AI system could be used to generate their 'expenses' claim's . Or create another moneypit of a "training scheme" like the Restart Circus .

"to tackle fraud, which went up during Covid when some in-person checks were suspended.

An estimated £8.3bn was overpaid in benefits this year, down from the year before but double the £4.1bn in the last year before the pandemic."

So they fu*ked up and did not do their job so everybody became a criminal!

Seems the Algorithm ️ has been set to Guilty by default . What a surprise there....

Must be trying to get back the £443.5 million on legal services:

"The government has spent £443.5m fighting disabled people who decided to appeal after being turned down for two key benefits, freedom of information data has revealed."

https://www.itv.com/news/2022-04-04/government-spent-440m-fighting-12m-disability-claimants