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WIRED and @LHreports obtained Rotterdam’s welfare fraud algorithm and the data used to train it. By reconstructing the system, we found that it discriminates based on ethnicity and gender and has fundamental flaws that make it both inaccurate and unfair. 3/10 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023

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In 2017, the city of Rotterdam deployed a machine learning algorithm to generate a risk score for around 30,000 people receiving welfare payments. The algorithm used attributes such as age, gender, and Dutch language ability to determine who should be investigated for fraud. 2/10 — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023

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Rotterdam’s algorithm is best thought of as a suspicion machine. It judges people on many characteristics they cannot control. The data fed into the algorithm ranges from invasive and subjective to banal and seemingly irrelevant. Questions like: — PolitiTweet.org

Posted March 6, 2023