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GPT-4o: When AI systems lack safeguards like transparency, human oversight, and mechanisms for contesting decisions, their errors can have long-lasting consequences.

GPT-4o: When AI systems lack safeguards like transparency, human oversight, and mechanisms for contesting decisions, their errors can have long-lasting consequences.

As the Dutch benefits scandal shows, recovering from such harm requires massive effort and time (...) algorithmic errors might indeed take decades to resolve.

Pascal Hetzscholdt
January 25, 2025

Question for ChatGPT-4o: Please read "Compensation for victims of benefits scandal stalls and threatens to last another twenty years: 'Impracticable tangle'" So does this mean that when AI takes your money, you may have to wait 20 years to get it back?

ChatGPT-4o’s answer:
The Dutch benefits scandal highlights the risks of poorly implemented AI systems in governance, including biased decision-making and a lack of accountability, which contributed to severe harm to affected families. The current delays in compensating victims, potentially extending for 20 years, stem from a bureaucratic tangle and fragmented processes.

Your hypothetical about AI taking money and compensation taking decades is a fair concern. When AI systems lack safeguards like transparency, human oversight, and mechanisms for contesting decisions, their errors can have long-lasting consequences, especially in sensitive areas like financial benefits. As the scandal shows, recovering from such harm requires massive effort and time.

The takeaway is that robust AI governance is essential to prevent such scenarios. Without proper safeguards, delays and harm caused by algorithmic errors might indeed take decades to resolve.

GPT-4o: Given the issues with algorithmic biases that contributed to the broader Dutch benefits scandal, robust oversight and ethical guidelines are essential...

PASCAL HETZSCHOLDT

2 NOVEMBER 2024

Question for AI services: Please read the article “Confidential report shows chaos and cynicism at government commission for compensation for benefits affair” and the article “Dutch scandal serves as a warning for Europe over risks of using algorithms

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GPT-4o: Here is a comprehensive list of safeguards that governments, regulators, and AI developers should implement to prevent a recurrence of scandals like the Dutch Benefits Affair.

PASCAL HETZSCHOLDT

25 DECEMBER 2024

Question 1 of 2 for ChatGPT-4o: Read the Politico article and the recent interview with Dutch Princess Laurentien and explain what the Dutch Benefits Affair was about, how AI played a key role in causing the issues and which failures on the side of the Dutch government

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GPT-4o: When AI systems lack safeguards like transparency, human oversight, and mechanisms for contesting decisions, their errors can have long-lasting consequences.

As the Dutch benefits scandal shows, recovering from such harm requires massive effort and time​ (...) algorithmic errors might indeed take decades to resolve.

GPT-4o: Given the issues with algorithmic biases that contributed to the broader Dutch benefits scandal, robust oversight and ethical guidelines are essential...

GPT-4o: Here is a comprehensive list of safeguards that governments, regulators, and AI developers should implement to prevent a recurrence of scandals like the Dutch Benefits Affair.

As the Dutch benefits scandal shows, recovering from such harm requires massive effort and time (...) algorithmic errors might indeed take decades to resolve.