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AI Disability Benefits: Denial Bias Audits
Auditing AI systems that score disability claims for systematic denial bias.
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- 1The premise
- 2disparate impact
- 3claim scoring
- 4audit
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Section 1
The premise
Models trained on past adjudications inherit the same biases that produced wrongful denials, especially for invisible disabilities.
What AI does well here
- Compute approval rates by impairment category
- Surface features driving denial scores
- Compare model outcomes to ALJ reversals
What AI cannot do
- Determine whether a claimant is disabled
- Override an administrative law judge
- Resolve causation in benefits law
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