I was on a panel earlier this week about the use of AI in the public sector when a question from the audience crystallised something that has been troubling me
When a decision is made that affects us, we hope the people involved are thinking carefully about its impact. But it isn’t always a human who is doing the legwork. Algorithms,
Increasingly algorithms are being used to automate decision-making in the public sector. Sometimes they are used to support humans to make final decisions, sometimes decision-making is entirely automated. These systems


