Artificial Intelligence volition beryllium utilized successful a crackdown connected payment cheats, the Government has announced.
The Department for Work and Pensions is investing £70million into high-tech 'machine learning' successful an effort to place patterns and anomalies among payment applications that could beryllium fraud.
And successful sweeping reforms, DWP investigators volition beryllium fixed powers to marque arrests and behaviour searches, arsenic good arsenic retrieve accusation from claimants' banks.
An estimated £6.4billion was mislaid to fraudsters successful the past fiscal year, and the crackdown comes a period aft a Bulgarian pack admitted masterminding Britain's biggest benefits fraud, stealing £54 cardinal done claims 'factories'.
The Department for Work and Pensions is investing £70million into high-tech 'machine learning' successful an effort to place patterns and anomalies among payment applications that could beryllium fraud. Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride pictured successful February
And successful sweeping reforms, DWP investigators volition beryllium fixed powers to marque arrests and behaviour searches, arsenic good arsenic retrieve accusation from claimants' banks. (Stock Image)
Work and Pensions Secretary Mel Stride said past night: 'The standard of their offending is simply a sobering reminder of the calculated and organised quality of fraud committed against our payment system.'
However, quality rights radical Big Brother Watch said: 'The projected fiscal surveillance powers are an affront to privacy.'
The DWP said each last decisions would beryllium made by unit members.
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