Wednesday, July 30, 2025
The city of Amsterdam has experimented with using algorithms to evaluate welfare applicants, and it attempted to implement this using fair and ethical AI. But when the Dutch city deployed its system in the real world, it still couldn’t remove biases. What happened? Why did Amsterdam fail? And more important, can this ever be done right? Join MIT Technology Review editor Amanda Silverman and investigative reporter Eileen Guo with Lighthouse Reports investigative reporter Gabriel Geiger for a subscriber-only conversation exploring if algorithms can ever be fair.
Going live on July 30th at 18:00 GMT / 1:00 PM ET / 10:00 AM PT
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