Debugging the State: Real-World AI Bias in Civic Systems
Municipalities now run machine learning models to route buses, triage housing aid, and predict pipe failures. Reviewing a few of these codebases is sobering. We are swapping human bureaucracy for opaque statistical models without any clear way to audit the weights. The shift happens quietly. Instead of a zoning board hearing where residents can object, you get an automated scoring script…
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