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Why Institutions Automate Existing Confusion

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From RN Collins, selected work

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Research cited

  1. NIST SP 1270, Towards a Standard for Identifying and Managing Bias in Artificial Intelligence (March 2022) nvlpubs.nist.gov
  2. NIST AI Risk Management Framework 1.0 (NIST AI 100-1); GAO-21-519SP; GAO-20-590G; CMS-0057-F (89 FR 8758) nvlpubs.nist.gov

Other sources

  1. Royal Commission into the Robodebt Scheme, Report (presented July 7, 2023), vol. 1 Executive summary pp. xxiv to xxvi, ch. 3 pp. 37 to 38; vol. 2 ch. 17 p. 472 robodebt.royalcommission.gov.au
  2. HHS OIG, A-02-20-01018, Prior Audits of Medicaid Eligibility Determinations in Four States (February 2022) oig.hhs.gov
  3. HHS OIG, A-07-17-02807, Colorado Improperly Claimed Millions in Enhanced Federal Medicaid Reimbursement (October 2020) oig.hhs.gov
  4. GAO-17-111, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program: More Information on Promising Practices Could Enhance States’ Use of Data Matching for Eligibility (October 2016) gao.gov

Images, slide by slide

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Illustrative photo: the Federal Archives and Records Center in San Bruno, California, in a 1974 National Archives photograph, a low concrete building with a flag and a lawnSource: U.S. National Archives, croppedPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: rows of identical card-file cabinets in a storage room at the Archives of Ontario, photographed during Doors Open Toronto in May 2012Photo: Raysonho (Open Grid Scheduler)Photo record
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Illustrative photo: the Centrelink service center on Shepperton Road in Victoria Park, Western Australia, April 2022, under signs for Centrelink, Medicare and NDIS. It stands for the agency's public face; it is one local office and is not tied to any debtPhoto: OrderinchaosPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: the spines of bound Commonwealth Law Reports volumes 206 and 207 (2001) on a shelf, Australia's printed law reportsPhoto: PhillipstsydneyPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: the front entrance of Parliament House in Canberra, the seat of the Australian government, with its flagpole above a colonnade and a patterned forecourt, photographed in January 2012, a few visitors small in the distancePhoto: Joseph FoxPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: the server room at The National Archives in Kew, London, May 2011, a dark aisle between racks of servers with indicator lightsPhoto: The National Archives (UK)Photo record
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Illustrative photo: a wall of wooden pigeonhole message boxes holding papers, along a hallway at Stanford University, February 2011Photo: StacalusaPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: a red mushroom-head emergency stop button on a yellow ring on a control console, with a keypad beside itPhoto: StahlkocherPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: the Hennepin County Government Center at 300 South 6th Street in Minneapolis, November 2015, with an enclosed skyway meeting the towerPhoto: Tony WebsterPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: the Colorado State Capitol Annex Building in Denver, a state government building, July 2009Photo: Jeffrey BeallPhoto record
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One of the Australian Taxation Office's buildings in Civic, Canberra, with a car park at the back, April 2021Photo: Nick-DPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: a small architectural model of a building in wood and tinted glass, with a yellow upper floor and blue lower windows on a plain white base, photographed in 2009Photo: THORPhoto record
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Illustrative photo: an empty oval conference table with chairs in a meeting room, photographed by the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs on March 25, 2013Photo: Dutch Ministry of Foreign AffairsPhoto record

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