Central authorities slow to react as Sweden’s cities embrace automation of welfare management – AlgorithmWatch
▻https://algorithmwatch.org/en/story/trelleborg-sweden-algorithm
Trelleborg is Sweden’s front-runner in automating welfare distribution. An analysis of the system’s source code brought little transparency – but revealed that the personal data of hundreds was wrongly made public. Trelleborg is a city of 40,000 in Sweden’s far south. Three years ago, it became the first municipality to introduce fully automated decision-making in its social services. They named their robot Ernst and introduced it as a digital co-worker. Sweden’s social services are governed (...)
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