" The state of Indiana denied one million applications for Healthcare, food stamps and cash benefits in three years - because a new computer system interpreted any application mistake as " failure to cooperate". In Los Angeles, an algorithm calculates the comparative vulnerability of tens of thousands of homeless people in order to prioritise them for an inadequate pool of housing resources. In Pittsburgh, a child welfare agency uses a statistical model to try to predict which children might be future victims of abuse or neglect" The major argument of the book is the process of automation through algorithms, computer systems and artificial intelligence increase the vulnerability of the poor by profiling, policing and punishing them using the above mentioned high tech tools.
