{"id":11939,"date":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:37:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/uk-officials-use-ai-to-decide-on-issues-from-benefits-to-marriage-licences\/"},"modified":"2023-10-23T13:37:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T11:37:34","slug":"uk-officials-use-ai-to-decide-on-issues-from-benefits-to-marriage-licences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/uk-officials-use-ai-to-decide-on-issues-from-benefits-to-marriage-licences\/","title":{"rendered":"UK officials use AI to decide on issues from benefits to marriage licences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forces<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/23\/uk-risks-scandal-over-bias-in-ai-tools-in-use-across-public-sector\">UK risks scandal over \u2018bias\u2019 in AI tools in use across public sector<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Government officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to help decide everything from who gets benefits to who should have their marriage licence approved, according to a Guardian investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The findings shed light on the haphazard and often uncontrolled way that cutting-edge technology is being used across Whitehall.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/oct\/23\/uk-officials-use-ai-to-decide-on-issues-from-benefits-to-marriage-licences\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/f67ebc8d0858465139589175ab93563fb53a003a\/0_0_5000_3000\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=271b25b5ad3b93e6dafeb104563b56c0\" title=\"UK officials use AI to decide on issues from benefits to marriage licences\" \/>Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forces<br \/>\nUK risks scandal over \u2018bias\u2019 in AI tools in use across public sector<br \/>\nGovernment officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to help decide everything from who gets benefits to who should have their marriage licence approved, according to a Guardian investigation.<br \/>\nThe findings shed light on the haphazard and often uncontrolled way that cutting-edge technology is being used across Whitehall. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exclusive: findings show uncontrolled and potentially discriminatory way technology used in Whitehall and some police forces UK risks scandal over \u2018bias\u2019 in AI tools in use across public sector Government officials are using artificial intelligence (AI) and complex algorithms to help decide everything from who gets benefits to who should have their marriage licence approved, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/10\/23\/uk-officials-use-ai-to-decide-on-issues-from-benefits-to-marriage-licences\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK officials use AI to decide on issues from benefits to marriage licences<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":11940,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11939\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11940"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}