Thomson Reuters Fraud Detect 'incorrectly' identifies fraud against welfare claimants
Date: 2024
Affected: US welfare recipients
Attack vector: adversarial-input
Category: real-world
Severity: Medium

An AI-driven fraud-detection tool licensed from Thomson Reuters and used by US state agencies was alleged to wrongly flag welfare applicants and recipients as fraudulent, leading to benefit denials and harms based on opaque scoring.


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