Brazil's sport ministry clears grant reviews with a risk score

Brazil's Federal Court of Accounts checked the Ministry of Sport's technical notes and confirmed that computerized review, using a CGU machine-learning risk score, closed 149 accountability reports.

  • 1 an organization

    The computerized review closed 149 accountability reports and 20 older agreements without a detailed financial review, a saving of staff time that the TCU did not measure.

Depth runs from 1, a convenience or time saved, to 5, a life or a livelihood preserved.

Status
Reported benefit.
Evidence

foundstudiedreportedclaimed

An independent audit report supports the benefit.

The system’s part
Not isolated. The TCU verified the closures from the ministry's notes but did not compare them with manual review. The score comes from a supervised machine-learning model, and grants also needed a favorable technical opinion to qualify.
Limits
Not yet checked.
Costs and harms
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Later
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Benefit type
Repetitive Task Automation
System
Análise informatizada de prestação de contas: a risk score (nota de risco) from a CGU supervised machine-learning model, combined with audit trails and value-band risk tolerances
Made by
Controladoria-Geral da União (CGU)
Used by
Ministério do Esporte (Coordenação de Prestação de Contas)
Where
Brazil
Stage
In routine use
Date
Kind
Aggregate result
Broad benefit
Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards, Processing Information
Collections
Scrutiny and findings
Last revised
31 October 2026

Sources

  1. Audit report, by authors with no tie to the system.

    Tribunal de Contas da União. Acórdão 2551/2025 – TCU – Plenário (TC 040.043/2023-1), relator Ministro-Substituto Marcos Bemquerer Costa, session of 29 October 2025. Monitoring of the orders to the Ministério do Esporte in Acórdão 2234/2023 – TCU – Plenário, report section D, paragraphs 56-71.

    verifica-se que elas demonstram a conclusão de 149 prestações de contas de instrumentos formalizados por meio da plataforma
    TransfereGov, utilizando o procedimento de análise informatizada

Details

AI system

Workflow

Each grant received a risk score from 0 to 1 from the CGU's supervised model. The ministry closed grants whose score fell within the tolerance for their value band. Only grants with a favorable technical opinion and no complaint, termination or cancellation qualified.

Follow-up

Conditions for replication

A ministry ordinance must set the risk tolerances for each value band. Grants must be registered on a platform that the computerized review can read, such as TransfereGov.

Entry details

Sector

Public administration: grant accountability review.

Purpose

The Controladoria-Geral da União built the supervised predictive model to score how likely a grant's accounts are to fail a detailed review. Accounts with low risk can then be closed by computerized analysis.

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Peter H. Vartanian. (2026). Brazil's sport ministry clears grant reviews with a risk score (AIBD-0708). Artificial Intelligence Benefits Database, edition of 31 October 2026. https://petervartanian.xyz/aibd/records/AIBD-0708.html (archived at https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AADSII, version 4.0)

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