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As Artificial Intelligence becomes an essential, albeit invisible, feature of our daily interactions, brace yourselves for even more EU-wide political wrangles (Photo: Markus Winkler)

Forecasting and profiling, or bias and discrimination?

Artificial Intelligence has already brought down one government in Europe.

In 2019, the Dutch tax authority used self-learning algorithms to create risk profiles in an attempt to spot fraud involving child-care benefits. As it became clear that the families, mainly from ethnic-minority communities, had been identified on suspicion of fraud and then penalised because of algorithm-generated profiles, a massive political scandal brought down the government of Dutch prime minister Mark Rutt...

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

As Artificial Intelligence becomes an essential, albeit invisible, feature of our daily interactions, brace yourselves for even more EU-wide political wrangles (Photo: Markus Winkler)

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Eszter Zalan is a Hungarian journalist who worked for Brussels-based news portal EUobserver specialising in European politics, focusing on populism and Brexit.

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