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Governments across the Global Majority are trying to tackle tough problems with tech. But instead of creating the oft-promised efficiencies, these tools are delivering deeper inequities–while making them harder to see and challenge.

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On the pod today, @alixdunn.com speaks with @gabrielgeiger.bsky.social and Purity Mukami about their investigation into Kenya’s means testing algorithm, which determines how much people should pay for healthcare. (Spoiler: it’s making poor people pay too much, and rich people too little.)

sha.africauncensored.onlineHiding Behind AIHow SHA Was Used to Load Health System Costs Onto Poorest.

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We also hear from Maria Pilar Llorens about how courts in Argentina are trying to use AI to unclog their backlog of cases, and the consequences when genAI gets judicial decisions wrong.

verfassungsblog.deArtificial Intelligence and Human Rights Courts: Understanding the ChallengesThe adoption of AI in Human Rights Courts' operations offers opportunities for improvement in terms of efficiency and access, but it also poses significant challenges. When implementing these tools,…

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And Divij Joshi takes us through one of the earliest experiments in government digitisation in India, tracing how digital IDs accelerated the commodification of 1.48 billion people’s data.

aljazeera.comHow an algorithm denied food to thousands of poor in India’s TelanganaIt adopted AI in welfare schemes to weed out ineligible ones, but has wrongfully removed thousands of legitimate ones.

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This is the second episode of REAL Resistance: a series of conversations produced in collaboration with Real ML, a global network of experts and advocates building movements to resist the material harms of technology. Listen to this conversation here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/real...

themaybe.orgREAL Resistance: Against Automated GovernmentsMaria Pilar Llorens, Divij Joshi, Gabriel Geiger, and Purity Mukami reveal how digitised welfare is not welfare — it’s just efficiency theatre.