AI Is Already Damaging Beneficiaries In NZ
First they came for the beneficiaries, because that’s where the State tests cruelty before rolling it out to everyone else.

First they came for the beneficiaries, because that’s where the State tests cruelty before rolling it out to everyone else.

A machine will now be allowed to make decisions about benefit support. The Greens say New Zealand is walking straight towards its own robodebt disaster.
The State is taking money from beneficiaries and handing it to debt collectors while taxpayers fund emergency support to keep those same people afloat.

When MSD starts calling homelessness a “narrative”, it’s not a bureaucratic slip. It’s a window into the contempt at the heart of a welfare system that punishes desperation.
Ministry for Disabled People Establishment Governance Group pleased with preferred permanent chief executive and confident in acting arrangements “The Public…
Developing a virtual village plan in Mount Roskill, Auckland, and creating a Te Ao Māori library to access information, stories…
To date, New Zealanders have been mostly apathetic as the government build up it’s ability to spy and store personal information on us. Most of the government’s “targets” have been so-called “terrorists”, immigrants, criminals, student-debt defaulters, and those on welfare benefits or living in state houses.
Minister Hekia Parata’s office has apparently deliberately broken the law by ignoring requests for information lodged under the Official Information Act.