The government is trialling a machine algorithm to predict whether universal credit claimants should recieve benefits based on their perceived likelhood of committing fraud in the future.
Campaigners have warned that marginalised or vulnerable groups are in danger of being unfairly penalised and having their benefits stopped before they are even paid out under the algorithm, which the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has been trialling over the past year.
