The €30 Billion AI Scandal That Collapsed a Government

A government algorithm was built to catch benefit fraud. Instead, it wrongly accused around 26,000 innocent families. Parents lost their homes and their jobs, thousands of children were taken into foster care, and in January 2021 the entire Dutch government resigned. Subscribe for a new AI incident every week. #AIGovernance #AlgorithmicBias #ArtificialIntelligence #AIethics #aicompliance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ AI Governance Certifications ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ✅ Learn AI Governance with GAICC 👉 https://gaicc.org?utm_source=youtube&... ✅ ISO 42001 Lead Implementer & Lead Auditor 👉 https://gaicc.org/iso-iec-42001-cours... ✅ GAICC Certified Professional in AI Governance (CPAIG) 👉 https://gaicc.org/certified-professio... ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⏰ Video Chapters ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 00:00 The Algorithm That Toppled a Government 00:40 Childcare Benefits and a Self-Learning Algorithm 01:04 Flagged for Being Foreign: The Bias Emerges 01:25 Families Destroyed: Fraud Charges and Foster Care 02:00 26,000 Wrongly Accused: The Cabinet Resigns 02:18 6 Controls That Could Have Prevented This 03:56 The Role of Governance Professional 04:20 Summary