Microsoft Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social
The Technology Platform for Social Intervention (Plataforma Tecnológica de Intervención Social) is a controversial algorithmic system used to predict teenage pregnancy in Argentina, Brazil, and Colombia. D eveloped in 2016 by Microsoft for the Ministry of Early Childhood in Salta province, Argentina, the system draws on age, ethnicity, country of origin, disability, and socio-economic data of some 200,000 women and girls, including 12,000 between the ages of 10 and 19. Microsoft announced the system is 'one of the pioneering cases in the use of AI data' in Argentina. T hen governor of Salta Juan Manuel Urtubey claimed it would enable authorities to 'foresee five or six years in advance, with first name, last name, and address, which girl - future teenager - is 86 percent predestined to have an adolescent pregnancy'.
- Organisation involved
- Ministry of Early Childhoood, Salta Province
- Product, system or model
- Technology Platform for Social Intervention
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