https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/y3zjz7/how-government-ai-stole-hundreds-of-millions-of-dollars-from-citizens > It almost reads like a dystopian plot from a sci-fi novel, playing out in the not-so-distant future.  > A major world government relies on a defective and cruel algorithm for debt collection, to extort money out of its most vulnerable citizens who were already on social assistance. Or to put it more succinctly: state-sponsored shakedowns via Artificial Intelligence, that ends up being so flawed it results in the country taking hundreds of millions of dollars from its own people.