{"id":864934,"date":"2025-08-14T21:04:51","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/roundtables-why-its-so-hard-to-make-welfare-ai-fair\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T21:04:51","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T02:04:51","slug":"roundtables-why-its-so-hard-to-make-welfare-ai-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/08\/14\/roundtables-why-its-so-hard-to-make-welfare-ai-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Roundtables: Why It\u2019s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<header id=\"roundtables--why-it-s-so-hard-to-make-welfare-ai-fair\">\n<div>\n<p>Watch a subscriber-only conversation on if algorithms can ever be fair.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content--body\">\n<div>\n<p><em>Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class>\n<div>\n<p>Amsterdam tried using algorithms to fairly assess welfare applicants, but bias still crept in. Why did Amsterdam fail? And more important,\u00a0can this ever be done right? Hear from <em>MIT Technology Review<\/em> editor Amanda Silverman, investigative reporter Eileen Guo, and Lighthouse Reports investigative reporter Gabriel Geiger as they explore if algorithms can ever be fair.<\/p>\n<p>Speakers: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/eileen-guo\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/eileen-guo\/\">Eileen Guo<\/a><\/strong>, features &#038; investigations reporter, <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/author\/amanda-silverman\">Amanda Silverman<\/a><\/strong>, features &#038; investigations editor, and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/gabriel-geiger\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/author\/gabriel-geiger\/\">Gabriel Geiger<\/a><\/strong> investigative reporter at Lighthouse Reports<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div provider=\"vimeo\">\n<figure>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Why It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s So Hard to Make Welfare AI Fair\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1105896037?dnt=1&#038;app_id=122963\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2025\/07\/30\/1120275\/roundtables-why-its-so-hard-to-make-welfare-ai-fair\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n MIT Technology Review<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watch a subscriber-only conversation on if algorithms can ever be fair. Available only for MIT Alumni and subscribers. Amsterdam tried using algorithms to fairly assess welfare applicants, but bias still crept in. Why did Amsterdam fail? And more important,\u00a0can this ever be done right? Hear from MIT Technology Review editor Amanda Silverman, investigative reporter Eileen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":864935,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29038,110078,46],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-864934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-its","8":"category-roundtables","9":"category-technology"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864934","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=864934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/864934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/864935"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=864934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=864934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=864934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}