Mentioned to someone that I was concerned about the fallout from #robodebt in terms of uptake of #automatingInequality.
"Yeah, what if they used AI to audit people's spending of their NDIS budget, "find" issues in their spending, and send them automated debt notices they can't challenge?"
*shudders*
#NDIS #AusPol #Disability #Australia
"A new aged care algorithm has cut his support, no human can override it." That statement is bullshit. No human has *chosen* to override it, because they want poor aged people dead. #bloodinthemachine #automatinginequality #australia

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Julie Collins voted consistently for compulsory income management for welfare recipients

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🧵18/ Who votes for Compulsory Income Management in Australia? Another Labor MP, #LibbyCoker #cashlesswelfare #AutomatingInequality #AusPol #supportOAF #laborpartyaustralia

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Libby Coker voted consistently for compulsory income management for welfare recipients

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🧵16/ Who votes for Compulsory Income Management in Australia? Labor + #RaffCiccone, that's who. #cashlesswelfare #AutomatingInequality #AusPol #laborpartyaustralia

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Raff Ciccone voted consistently for compulsory income management for welfare recipients

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🧵17/ Who votes for Compulsory Income Management in Australia? Sharon, Sharon, what are you thinking, Sharon? That's who. theyvoteforyou.org.au/people/repre... #cashlesswelfare #AutomatingInequality #AusPol

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Sharon Claydon voted consistently for compulsory income management for welfare recipients

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"I want to talk about the rise of this digital poorhouse and how it responds to and re-creates a narrative. The idea that there's not enough for everyone and we have to make really tough choices about who deserves to attain their basic human rights."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzssyn0L5I8
#inequality #automation #automatedinequality #automatinginequality
Virginia Eubanks: Automating inequality

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More algorithmic injustice in welfare systems:

Sweden's social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

(Read Virginia Eubank's "Automating Inequality" for a primer on this topic)

https://www.lighthousereports.com/investigation/swedens-suspicion-machine/

#Welfare #Sweden #Europe #Discrimination #Injustice #AI #AutomatingInequality #Nordic

Sweden’s Suspicion Machine

Behind a veil of secrecy, the social security agency deploys discriminatory algorithms searching for fraud epidemic it has invented

Lighthouse Reports
@persagen
Not sure if you knew about this but there’s a great read that I think you should look into if you’re interested. AI-powered systems for algorithmic rent increase, that sounds like something she would’ve covered in #automatinginequality
https://virginia-eubanks.com/automating-inequality/
Also Zuboff’s website just for fun
https://shoshanazuboff.com/book/
#surveillancecapitalism
Automating Inequality

“This book is downright scary — but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered…

Virginia Eubanks
@VirginiaEubanks illustriert im Buch #AutomatingInequality (2018), wie AI-gestützte Systeme in Gesundheit, Sozialhilfe und Politik schädliche Entscheidungen treffen, die auf fehlerhaften Daten und Vorurteilen bezüglich Klasse, race und Geschlecht beruhen.