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When the Algorithm Gets It Wrong: An Innocent Grandmother Jailed for Months Exposes the Terrifying Fragility of AI-Powered Surveillance
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When the Algorithm Gets It Wrong: An Innocent Grandmother Jailed for Months Exposes the Terrifying Fragility of AI-Powered Surveillance
Sandra Barker spent 39 days in a North Dakota jail. She was 56 years old, a grandmother, and she had done nothing wrong. The case against her began not with a detective’s hunch or a witness tip but with an algorithm — an artificial intelligence system deployed by the state to detect Medicaid fraud. The AI flagged Barker’s billing records as suspicious. Based largely on that automated output, North Dakota’s Bureau of Criminal Investigation arrest…
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