Social welfare has long been a priority area for digitisation and more recently for ADM. Digitisation and ADM can either advance or threaten socio-economic rights of the marginalised. Current Australian examples include the roll-out of on-line and apps-based client interfaces and compliance technologies in Centrelink. Others include work within the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) on development of virtual assistants or use of AI to leverage existing data sets to aid or displace human decision-making. Drawing on these examples and other recent experience, this chapter reviews the adequacy of traditional processes of public policy development, public administration, and legal regulation/redress in advancing and protecting the socio-economic rights of the marginalised in the rapidly emerging automated welfare state. It is argued that protections are needed against the power of ADM to collapse program design choices so that outliers, individualisation, complexity, and discretion are excluded or undervalued. It is suggested that innovative new processes may be needed, such as genuine co-design and collaborative fine-tuning of ADM initiatives, new approaches to (re)building citizen trust and empathy in an automated welfare state, and creative new ways of ensuring equal protection of the socio-economic rights of the marginalised in social services and responsiveness to user interests.