An agency automates benefit payments. Fraudulent transactions become less frequent, but a compromised approval rule can now propagate errors across thousands of payments before monitoring triggers corrective action.
From a systems thinking perspective, which conclusion is best supported?

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An agency automates benefit payments. Fraudulent transactions become less frequent, but a compromised approval rule can now propagate errors across thousands of payments before monitoring triggers corrective action. 
 From a systems thinking perspective, which conclusion is best supported?

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All answers can be true.

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The system is safer because reduced fraud frequency demonstrates that corrective feedback is effective.

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The system is riskier because automation necessarily creates a reinforcing feedback loop.

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Risk cannot be ranked from frequency alone; processing speed and feedback delays also shape the scale of harm.

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