July 11, 2023, 4:34 p.m. | Robert Booth Social affairs correspondent

Artificial intelligence (AI) | The Guardian www.theguardian.com

Department of Work and Pensions has been warned about potential bias in algorithms by auditor general

The government has widened its deployment of artificial intelligence to uncover welfare fraud, despite warnings of algorithmic bias against groups of vulnerable claimants.

In a £70m investment applying “advanced analytics” to requests for universal credit (UC), the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has extended the use of machine learning as it bids to save over £1bn from the £8bn-plus lost to fraud and …

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