The Danish welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), risks discriminating against people with disabilities, low-income individuals, migrants, refugees, and marginalized racial groups through its use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools to flag individuals for social benefits fraud investigations, Amnesty International said today in a new report. The report, Coded Injustice: Surveillance and Discrimination in Denmark’s Automated Welfare State , details how the sweeping use of fraud detection algorithms, paired with mass surveillance practices, has led people to unwillingly –or even unknowingly– forfeit their right to privacy, and created an atmosphere of fear. “This mass surveillance has created a social benefits system that risks targeting, rather than supporting the very people it was meant to protect,” said Hellen Mukiri-Smith, Amnesty International’s Researcher on Artificial Intelligence and Human Rights.
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