Automating bias: How algorithms designed to alleviate poverty can perpetuate it instead

Near the end of 2006 mitch daniels, then governor of Indiana, announced a plan to give the state’s “neediest people a better chance to escape welfare for the world of work and dignity.” He signed a ․1.16-billion contract with a consortium of companies, including IBM, that would automate and privatize eligibility processes for Indiana’s welfare programs.