Dozens of Bulgarian nationals have been tipped into poverty after unexplained benefit suspensions following the creation of a “risk review” unit in the Department for Work and Pensions, an MP has said.

Kate Osamor, the Labour MP for Edmonto…

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is ploughing £70m into its digital transformation projects over the next three years. However, the National Audit Office (NAO) has raised concerns about investments the department is making in arti…

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 u…

The Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) has revealed plans to widen its use of the technology to tackle fraud.

Campaigners say more information is needed to ensure the system does not make biased referrals for benefit investigations.

The …

In a recent National Audit Office (NAO) report concerning the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) financial accounts, it has come to light that the DWP is expanding its use of machine learning for identifying potential benefits fraud.

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The UK government risks contempt of court unless it improves its response to requests for transparency over the use of artificial intelligence (AI) to vet welfare claims, the information commissioner has said.

Over the past two years, the D…

Senior civil servants told a committee of MPs that an AI being developed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to detect fraud and error is still in the learning stages of its development and is exhibiting bias against some claimant…

Kate Osamor, the Labour MP for Edmonton, recently received an email from a charity about a constituent of hers who had had her benefits suspended apparently without reason.

“For well over a year now she has been trying to contact DWP [the D…

In the past, artificial intelligence (AI) use in public services has caused uproars. For instance, in the Netherlands, tax authorities used technology to find fraud but made many mistakes. This resulted in a hefty fine of €3.7m, pushing tho…

The report made findings of some potentially discriminatory results made by the artificial intelligence.

The UK government officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to help make various decisions including thos…

Government officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) to help decide on everything from approving marriage licences to who should be given benefits, it has been revealed.

Civil servants in at least eight Whitehall departments, and sev…

The government's use of artificial intelligence (AI) risks producing discriminatory results against benefit claimants and ethnic minorities, an investigation has found.

A total of eight Whitehall departments and some police forces are using…

Civil servants in at least eight government departments and the police are using artificial intelligence to make decisions on welfare, immigration and criminal justice, it has been claimed.

The Guardian reported that the systems were being …