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In 2018, the New York City Council created a task force to study the city’s use of automated decision systems (ADS) The concern: Algorithms, not just in New York but around the country, were increasingly being employed by government agencies to do everything from informing criminal sentencing and detecting unemployment fraud to prioritizing child abuse cases. In Michigan, an algorithm designed to detect fraudulent unemployment claims famously flagged thousands of applicants, forcing residents who should have received assistance to lose their homes and file for bankruptcy. Nearly 40 bills designed to study or regulate government agencies’ use of algorithms have failed to pass.