Artificial Intelligence in Denmark's Welfare System - Mass Surveillance and Risks of Discrimination

Denmark’s welfare authority, Udbetaling Danmark, is using artificial intelligence (AI) tools, including up to 60 fraud-detection algorithms, in its quest to identify benefits fraud.

However, the Danish automated welfare system raises concerns about privacy erosion and human dignity. By deploying these fraud-detection algorithms alongside traditional surveillance methods, the authorities are enabling and expanding digitized mass surveillance. Racialized groups, migrants, refugees, and people with disabilities are all at risk of discrimination within this system.

The documentary explores how Denmark’s welfare system employs both analog and digital forms of surveillance through processing large amounts of data, including from social media activity and geolocation data—to monitor individuals.

It also explores how discriminatory structures are embedded within the design of welfare authority algorithms, facilitating categorization of individuals and communities based on perceived differences, or “othering.”

Filmmaker: Rolien Creton
Producer: Hajira Maryam
Voiceover: Teresa Barrio Traspaderne

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