Microsoft Created Creepy Algorithm to Predict Which Specific Teens Would Get Pregnant

It is a mix of Big Tech overreach and state authoritarianism.

The Salta province of Argentina approved the development of a Microsoft program in 2o18 that could determine which low-income teens would likely get pregnant.

One of the pioneer cases in the use of artificial intelligence data was the "C", which used demographic data including age, ethnicity, disability, country of origin, and whether or not their home had hot.

At the same time Argentina's Congress was debating whether to decriminalize abortion, Microsoft offered the province the program that was celebrated on national television.

The women and girls Microsoft identified as would-be teen moms were often left out in the cold.

The Technology Platform for Social Intervention is noteworthy due to the fact that an American company like Microsoft chose to deploy such a program in a country with a long history of population control measures.

There is a lack of transparency surrounding the program. The Argentinian government never assessed the impact on girls and women.

The program involved the deployment ofterritorial agents who took photos of those identified as being predestined for pregnancy, and even recorded their locations.

It's not clear what the provincial or national governments did with the data, or if they related to the abortion debate.

Argentina voted to decriminalize abortion in 2020, but the program's existence should be cause for concern.

The report should serve as a warning of the potentially dangerous intersection between American tech and authoritarianism, and offer a reminder that we have, for the time being, less to fear from the technology than from the humans behind it.

There is a case of the cesspy Algorithm that predicts teen pregnancies.

Data scientists say they have developed methods to predict the next coup attempt.

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