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After ‘coding error’ triggers firings, top NIH scientists called back to work (www.science.org)
submitted 2 weeks ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] beejjorgensen 25 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Whoever wrote that code is definitely the right team to rewrite social security.

[–] pHr34kY@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Australia did this once. We called it "robodebt". An algorithm that falsely cut people off social security and ultimately killed some of them.

[–] Morphit@feddit.uk 3 points 2 weeks ago

I would say don't give DOGE any ideas but I think that's less bad than some of their own.