Call to use AI to detect DWP benefit fraud ‘risks mass surveillance’ | Personal Finance | Finance
Campaigners have slammed proposals by Tony Blair’s policy think tank to deploy Artificial Intelligence to run and police benefit payments.
The Tony Blair Institute for Global Change suggested that AI could effectively take over 40 per cent of tasks conducted by civil servants at the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP).
It suggests this would allow the government department to cut costs, while eliminating fraud and errors, which currently run to billions of pounds a year.
However, privacy…
