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#107: South Africa's Welfare Algorithm Goes on Trial, New Mexico Districts Exit an AI Reading Mandate, Pakistan's First Provincial Disaster Policy
Impact Signals #107: South Africa's Welfare Algorithm Goes on Trial, New Mexico Districts Exit an AI Reading Mandate, Pakistan's First Provincial Disaster Policy Seven days before South Africa's Supreme Court of Appeal decides whether an algorithm can keep determining who receives the country's R370 monthly hunger grant, a Wits University analysis details how digitization shrank the rolls from 16 million recipients to 5.6 million. In New Mexico, five districts and a charter school have pulled out of the state's mandatory AI reading assessment over children's voice recordings, and Khyber…
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