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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Saqib Shah

UK government using AI to decide benefit payments and spot sham marriages, investigation reveals

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 the burgeoning technology to make life-altering decisions for members of the public, reported the Guardian.

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