How Government AI Stole Hundreds of Millions of Dollars From Citizens

<p>It almost reads like a dystopian plot from a sci-fi novel, playing out in the not-so-distant future.&nbsp;</p><p>A major world government relies on a defective and cruel algorithm for debt collection, to extort money out of its most vulnerable citizens who were already on social assistance. Or to put it more succinctly: state-sponsored shakedowns via Artificial Intelligence, that ends up being so flawed it results in the country taking hundreds of millions of dollars from its own people.</p><p>Sounds unreal, right? Well, this<a href="https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3zkgb/the-story-of-how-the-australian-government-screwed-its-most-vulnerable-people-v27n3?" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"> actually happened in Australia</a>, a major country with a huge economic footprint around the world. For more on the story we’ve got Motherboard editor and Jordan Pearson on CYBER.</p> &#10;&nbsp;<br /><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; ' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for privacy and opt-out information.</p>