Mon Jan 4 – Fri Jan 22, 2027 · 15 episodes · one story per episode, Monday–Friday
Episode 46 · Monday, January 4, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band L · ≈ 7½–10 min (estimate)
Each victim was told they were the only one — while the Post Office and Fujitsu knew of significant bugs as early as 1999
Episode 47 · Tuesday, January 5, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
The state couldn't explain how the suspicion was calculated. The court ruled that was the point
Episode 48 · Wednesday, January 6, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Ninety-three percent wrong, one hundred percent enforced — including the 400% penalty
Episode 49 · Thursday, January 7, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Nobody could tell the beneficiaries why their hours vanished. The answer was a spreadsheet formula nobody had validated
Episode 50 · Friday, January 8, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
"The algorithm is biased" and "the algorithm is fair" turned out to be the same sentence in two dialects of statistics
Episode 51 · Monday, January 11, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Nobody typed race into the model. The billing data did it for them
Episode 52 · Tuesday, January 12, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
It missed two-thirds of the dying patients and flagged one in five of everyone else
Episode 53 · Wednesday, January 13, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
If the complaint is right, the algorithm's decisions were overturned nine times in ten — by the one patient in five hundred who appealed
Episode 54 · Thursday, January 14, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
One-point-two seconds: long enough to click "deny," not long enough to open the file
Episode 55 · Friday, January 15, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
The supercomputer that beat Jeopardy! learned oncology from made-up patients and a few doctors' opinions
Episode 56 · Monday, January 18, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
The discrimination was so mechanical it could be proved by changing one field and resubmitting
Episode 57 · Tuesday, January 19, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Trained on a decade of who got hired, it learned the lesson perfectly. That was the problem
Episode 58 · Wednesday, January 20, 2027
Reported — from named reputable journalism · Band S · ≈ 2–3 min (estimate)
Customer service told her the limit was set by an algorithm the representatives could not explain
Episode 59 · Thursday, January 21, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
Your grade depended on how strangers did at your school in years you weren't there
Episode 60 · Friday, January 22, 2027
Documented — from a primary record · Band M · ≈ 4–6 min (estimate)
No smoke-filled room, no phone calls between competitors. Just the same software, reading everyone's private numbers