IIT Kanpur: The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kanpur has established the potential of an AI-powered system to help governments identify households requiring welfare support using data already available in government systems, the institute said on Tuesday.
The findings were presented to Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu and senior government officials by an IIT-K team comprising Director Manindra Agrawal, Dean of the Wadhwani School of AI & Intelligent Systems Nitin Saxena and Manish Srivastava, CEO of Airawat Research Foundation, in a meeting on Tuesday.
The Family Score system assesses the socio-economic conditions of households without requiring additional surveys, potentially offering a faster and more cost-effective way to identify beneficiaries at scale, the institute said. The findings showed that an ensemble of AI models developed by the college can outperform conventional surveys in determining the socio-economic conditions of households, while requiring relatively little additional cost and effort from the government, according to the institute.
