Tres Publique: Algorithms in the French Welfare State w/ Soizic Pénicaud
Computer Says Maybe21 Marras 2025

Tres Publique: Algorithms in the French Welfare State w/ Soizic Pénicaud

Governments around the world are using predictive systems to manage engagement with even the most vulnerable. Results are mixed.

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Luckily people like Soizic Pénicaud are working to prevent the modern welfare state from becoming a web of punishment of the most marginalised. Soizic has worked on algorithmic transparency both in and outside of a government context, and this week will share her journey from working on incrementally improving these systems (boring, ineffective, hard) — to escaping the slow pace of government and looking at the bigger picture of algorithmic governance, and how it can build better public benefit in France (fun, transformative, and a good challenge).

Soizic is working to shift political debates about opaque decision-making algorithms to focus on what they’re really about: the marginalised communities who’s lives are most effected by these systems.

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