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The Rewiring of Social Security Admin With AI Has Begun, the Training Video Is Not Promising


Other countries have already automated their social welfare systems—with mixed results.

Indeed, a similar attempt at automating social services in Brazil shows why over-reliance on algorithms to operate welfare programs may result in worse outcomes for everybody. “People out here cannot [even] work with Gmail, Facebook, Instagram,” Francisco Santana, president of the Union for Rural Workers at Barra do Corda, told Rest of World. In place of full staff, DOGE has sought to institute an “AI-first” strategy that would cut the federal workforce in half and replace human workers with software.

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