Kanpur, Sept. 8 -- IIT Kanpur has demonstrated the potential of AI to help governments identify households that may require welfare support using data already available within government systems. The institute's AI-powered Family Score system assesses the socio-economic conditions of households without requiring additional surveys, offering a faster and more cost-effective approach to welfare identification at scale, a release said.

It stated under the collaboration between IIT Kanpur and the Government of Andhra Pradesh, Phase 1 focused on testing whether AI could provide a reliable alternative to conventional household surveys for assessing socio-economic conditions.

The findings indicate that an ensemble of AI models developed by IIT...