NYC's child welfare agency uses AI to scrutinize marginalized families, recent investigation finds

29/05/2025 10 min
NYC's child welfare agency uses AI to scrutinize marginalized families, recent investigation finds

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The New York City Administration for Children's Services, or ACS, has been using predictive artificial intelligence to flag some families for greater scrutiny, according to a recent investigation by The Markup. Colin Lecher reported the story and tells Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino, like all AI systems, it can encode historical biases.