We are already using AI against beneficiaries
Beneficiaries are always the lab rats for how far the State thinks it can bend human rights.
Beneficiaries are already under a level of mass surveillance we wouldn’t agree with if used on us.
Beneficiaries are already facing AI. The Government changed the rules around welfare and forced beneficiaries to reapply every 6 months rather than annually and because the agencies don’t have enough staff to process those applications they allow AI to now do it.
They are guinea pigs to this experiment!
Nothing comforts a struggling family like a chatbot saying ‘Have you tried not being poor?’
“Nicola Willis thinks AI can handle mental health support — because when you’re at your lowest, nothing hits quite like a machine asking you to rate your despair out of five.
National’s dream is a fully automated public service — no public, no service, and best of all, no one left to explain why it’s not working.
AI doesn’t replace bureaucracy. It replaces accountability.
