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Where automated decisions went wrong

Incidents gathered from public reporting around the world. Each one links to the articles it came from. None of it is a finding that anyone broke the law.

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62 incidents closest to “Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS)” · matched on meaning · public reporting

Dartmouth Medical School charges 17 students with cheating based on tracking system.

Dartmouth College's Geisel School of Medicine charged 17 students with cheating on remote exams during the pandemic. The charges were based on secret tracking of student activity on the learning management system. Critics say the system is prone to errors and inappropriate for monitoring students.

Company involved
Dartmouth College Geisel School of Medicine

10 source articles · read the reporting →

University of Chicago report finds US healthcare algorithms rife with bias

A University of Chicago report alleges that algorithms used by hospitals, insurers and other businesses across the US are biased along racial and economic lines. The algorithms help triage patients, predict diabetes and flag those needing extra care, but the report says flawed products were introduced with little oversight. It says inequitable treatment has continued for more than a decade.

7 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-QSFASR1 Jan 2019

Denmark's Udbetaling Danmark welfare algorithm illegally surveilled millions

Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), Denmark's centralized welfare payment agency, used automated algorithms to check eligibility and detect fraud. The system collected personal data on millions of beneficiaries and their relatives, including non-beneficiaries, in what a think-tank called 'systematic surveillance'. A complaint to the Danish Data Protection Authority led to a ruling that the data collection violated GDPR, and UDK eventually deleted the illegally obtained data. The system also caused erroneous payments, including underpaying 300,000 pensioners by 94 million euros annually.

Company involved
Udbetaling Danmark

10 source articles · read the reporting →

UnitedHealthcare sued for using AI to deny Medicare Advantage patients care

A class action complaint alleges that UnitedHealthcare and its subsidiary naviHealth deployed an artificial intelligence model to override treating physicians' determinations of medically necessary care for elderly Medicare Advantage patients. The complaint claims the AI model has a known 90% error rate and wrongfully denied patients care. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Minnesota, seeks damages on behalf of the estates of two deceased patients and all others similarly situated.

Company involved
UnitedHealthcare, Inc.

10 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-UHO4KG31 Aug 2021

Met Police buys £3m retrospective facial recognition system

The Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has awarded a £3 million, four-year contract to Northgate Public Services for a new retrospective facial-recognition (RFR) system to be deployed within three months. RFR processes biometric information from historic CCTV, social media, and other images to identify suspects and missing persons, operating retroactively unlike live facial recognition. The procurement was approved by the Mayor's Office for Policing and Crime in August 2021. The MPS states that human-in-the-loop decision-making will be used, but digital rights groups and a former biometrics commissioner have raised concerns about potential discrimination, overrepresentation of marginalised groups in watch lists, and lack of a legislative framework.

Company involved
Metropolitan Police Service
AI system involved
Retrospective facial-recognition software

9 source articles · read the reporting →

Mazaheri v Law Society of Ontario (Law Society Tribunal (ON)): AI-hallucinated content in court filing, Adverse Costs Order

AI generated fabricated legal citations in a court filing by Shahryar Mazaheri.

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-R2SNAZ1 Jan 2013

UnitedHealth used ALERT algorithm to limit mental health coverage, regulators found

ProPublica reports that UnitedHealth Group's Optum subsidiary used the ALERT algorithm to flag mental health patients and therapists as outliers, leading to therapy coverage denials. Regulators in California, Massachusetts and New York alleged this breached the federal Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act, and UnitedHealth agreed to restrict the system in those jurisdictions. The company denies wrongdoing and says its programmes are compliant. Affected patients, including Medicaid enrollees, were left to pay out-of-pocket or go without care.

Company involved
UnitedHealth Group
AI system involved
ALERT

5 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-3333OU22 Sep 2021

EviCore denied heart catheterization for patient using algorithm

In fall 2021, Little John Cupp's doctor requested a left heart catheterization exam. EviCore, a company hired by UnitedHealthcare, denied the request twice using an algorithm called 'the dial' that adjusts thresholds for review. The algorithm flagged the request for review, and EviCore's doctors determined it was not medically necessary. Cupp did not receive the procedure and his symptoms continued.

Company involved
EviCore (a Cigna company)
AI system involved
the dial

6 source articles · read the reporting →

IRCC uses AI triage for Temporary Resident Visa applications

Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC) uses an AI system called Advanced Analytics to triage Temporary Resident Visa applications from India and China. The system categorizes applications into tiers, with Tier 1 approved automatically and others sent to human officers. Critics allege the system lacks transparency and may introduce bias, leading to visa refusals without clear rationale. The author, a Canadian immigration lawyer, is filing Federal Court cases on behalf of clients affected by refusals.

Company involved
Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada (IRCC)
AI system involved
Advanced Analytics Triage of Overseas Temporary Resident Visa Applications

10 source articles · read the reporting →

Humana sued for using AI to deny seniors rehabilitation care

Health insurer Humana is accused in a class-action lawsuit of using an AI algorithm to systematically deny rehabilitation care to Medicare Advantage patients, despite recommendations from their doctors. The lawsuit, filed on December 12, 2023, alleges that the AI tool restricted medically necessary care. This is the second major health insurer to face legal action over its use of AI to deny care.

Company involved
Humana

9 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-LN1XAB1 Jan 2021

California EDD's automated fraud detection wrongly suspended 600,000 legitimate unemployment claims

In January 2021, the California Employment Development Department used Thompson Reuters automated batch review software to flag 1.1 million unemployment claims as potentially fraudulent. EDD stopped payments on those claims without prior notice. Later, over 600,000 were confirmed as legitimate after claimants used ID.me to verify their identity. The incident highlights the trade-off between fraud prevention and timely benefit access.

Company involved
California Employment Development Department (EDD)
AI system involved
Thompson Reuters Automated Batch Review

7 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-MQA6MW1 Mar 2022

Haryana government's algorithm wrongly declares thousands dead, stops pensions

The Haryana state government's Family Identity Data Repository (PPP) algorithm wrongly declared thousands of elderly and widowed citizens as dead, stopping their pensions. Dhuli Chand, a 102-year-old man, had to stage a mock wedding procession to prove he was alive after his pension was cut for six months. The government acknowledged the errors and corrected some records, but many still face difficulties.

Company involved
Haryana state government
AI system involved
Family Identity Data Repository (Parivar Pehchan Patra or PPP)

6 source articles · read the reporting →

Meta tracks employee keystrokes on Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia for AI training

Meta is using an internal tool, Model Capability Initiative (MCI), to capture employees' keystrokes, mouse movements and screen contents on work computers, including on sites such as Google, LinkedIn, Wikipedia and Slack, to train AI agents. Meta confirmed the project and said safeguards protect sensitive content and that the data is not used for other purposes. Employees raised concerns in internal messages that the tool could expose passwords, product details and personal information. A Meta memo said staff can avoid capture by not doing personal work on work computers.

Company involved
Meta
AI system involved
Model Capability Initiative (MCI)

5 source articles · read the reporting →

Teething problems in Mater Dei's medicine robots addressed

The Malta Union for Midwives and Nurses claimed that a €23 million investment in two computerised drug administration robots, Mario and Sophia, at Mater Dei Hospital had resulted in a complete failure. However, sources within the Health Ministry said that most teething problems have been addressed and that the supplier has not been paid yet. They reported that out of over 1,700 medication rounds, only four required a contingency plan.

Company involved
Mater Dei Hospital
AI system involved
Mario and Sophia

6 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-YDH39P1 Jan 2013

Swedish welfare agency's AI system flags marginalized groups for fraud investigations

Försäkringskassan, Sweden's Social Insurance Agency, uses an AI risk-scoring system to flag welfare applicants for fraud investigations. The system disproportionately targets women, individuals with foreign backgrounds, low-income earners, and those without university degrees, according to an investigation by Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet. Amnesty International has called for the system to be discontinued, citing violations of the right to equality and non-discrimination.

Company involved
Försäkringskassan (Swedish Social Insurance Agency)

6 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-VERNY015 May 2025

AEMPS withdraws AI medicines tool MeQA after detecting errors

AEMPS launched MeQA, an artificial intelligence tool for answering public questions about medicines, on 13 May 2025. Two days later it withdrew the tool after detecting that some responses contained errors. The agency said that most answers were correct but that the errors could affect patient safety, and that it would restore the service as soon as possible.

Company involved
Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios (AEMPS)
AI system involved
MeQA

4 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-9VIXU423 Mar 2026

Woman denied state welfare card groceries after face scan fails

A grandmother rode her motorcycle several kilometres to a shop in Sapphaya district, Chai Nat province, to use her state welfare card to buy groceries for her family. After selecting items, she failed repeated facial recognition scans because her ID card photo was years old and no longer matched her appearance. She left the shop empty-handed and in tears.

Company involved
Government of Thailand (state welfare card system)

2 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-KO86VX1 Jul 2020

MIT apologizes and pulls offline dataset that taught AI to use slurs

MIT permanently removed its 80 Million Tiny Images dataset after researchers discovered it contained thousands of images labeled with racist and misogynistic slurs. The dataset, used to train AI systems for object detection, was built by automatically scraping images from the internet using a list of nouns from WordNet that included derogatory terms. MIT apologized and urged the community to delete copies of the dataset.

Company involved
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
AI system involved
80 Million Tiny Images

10 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-JRMWVP22 May 2019

Aadhaar biometric glitch denies rations, leads to starvation death

Motka Manjhi, a low-income villager in Jharkhand, India, was repeatedly denied subsidised food rations because his thumbprint failed to register on the Aadhaar biometric system. Unable to travel to a centre to update his data, he went without food and died of starvation on 22 May. His family believes the denial of rations caused his death. Activists allege that similar Aadhaar glitches have led to other starvation deaths.

Company involved
Government of India
AI system involved
Aadhaar

10 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-1UJHJB1 Jan 2019

Tennessee's TennCare Connect algorithm illegally denied thousands Medicaid benefits

A U.S. District Court judge ruled that Tennessee's TennCare Connect system, built by Deloitte for over $400 million, illegally denied thousands of low-income residents and people with disabilities Medicaid and disability benefits due to programming and data errors. The system automatically terminated coverage without properly considering eligibility for all available programs. A class action lawsuit filed in 2020 resulted in the ruling.

Company involved
TennCare (Tennessee Medicaid)
AI system involved
TennCare Connect

10 source articles · read the reporting →

WF-15KEYQ1 Apr 2023

Deloitte software glitches wrongly remove Texans from Medicaid

Advocacy groups filed a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission alleging that Deloitte's eligibility software, TIERS, used by Texas Medicaid, wrongly disenrolled qualified recipients due to glitches. Nearly 1.8 million Texans lost coverage after the pandemic pause ended, with many errors attributed to procedural issues but some linked to system malfunctions. Deloitte denies the claims, while the state says it restored care for at least 90,000 people. The FTC has not yet responded to the complaint.

Company involved
Texas Health and Human Services Commission
AI system involved
TIERS

6 source articles · read the reporting →

MAA, JBG to pay DC $9.3M total to settle RealPage case - Multifamily Dive

The system set rent prices for tenants, causing them to pay higher rents.

Company involved
MAA (Mid-America Apartments) and JBG Smith
AI system involved
RealPage Revenue Management Software

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-67SP4W1 Jan 2016

Duke University MTMC Dataset Used in Authoritarian Surveillance Research

Duke University created and openly distributed the Duke MTMC dataset, containing surveillance footage of approximately 2,000 students and visitors on campus. The dataset was used by numerous organisations, including Chinese military-linked companies like SenseTime and Hikvision, for developing person re-identification and facial recognition technologies. Following an investigation by exposing.ai and the Financial Times, Duke University terminated the dataset in May 2019. The incident highlights the privacy risks of academic datasets being repurposed for mass surveillance without consent.

Company involved
Duke University
AI system involved
Duke MTMC

1 source article · read the reporting →

WF-53EQUB1 Jun 2019

Security Health Plan used AI to cut off nursing home care for 85-year-old woman

Frances Walter, an 85-year-old woman with a shattered shoulder, had her nursing home care payment cut off by Security Health Plan after an algorithm predicted she would recover in 16.6 days. The algorithm, nH Predict from NaviHealth, did not account for her severe pain and allergy to pain medicine. She was forced to spend her life savings and enroll in Medicaid while fighting the denial. A federal judge later ruled the denial was speculative and she was owed thousands of dollars.

Company involved
Security Health Plan
AI system involved
nH Predict

1 source article · read the reporting →

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