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Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI

This story is a partnership between MIT Technology Review, Lighthouse Reports, and Trouw, and was supported by the Pulitzer Center.  Two futures Hans de Zwart, a gym teacher turned digital rights advocate, says that when he saw Amsterdam’s plan to have an algorithm evaluate every welfare applicant in the city for potential fraud, he nearly fell out of his chair.  It was February 2023, and de Zwart, who had served as the executive director of Bits of Freedom, the Netherlands’ leading digital r...

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