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This paper presents a hierarchical human–AI triage model for Point of Sale fraud detection in the Nigerian FinTech sector, adopting a We Are All Equal worldview to address discrimination laundering. It models aleatoric infrastructure noise as non-fraud signals and uses a three-tier routing policy with a calibrated ensemble filter. Experiments show a 1.88% complementarity gap and a 24.79 percentage-point fraud recall gain versus an autonomous baseline, while shrinking the regional performance gap from 19.43 to 2.88.","arXiv :2607 . 103 17v 1 [ cs .CL] 11 Jul 2026  \nNeutralizing Structural Inequality in the Nigerian  \nFinTech Sector  \nMuhammad Abdullahi Said  \nAbstract  \nAlgorithmic decision systems in financial services often rely on data proxies that inadvertently encode structural inequalities. This paper introduces a hierarchical human-AI triage model for Point of Sale fraud detection in the Nigerian FinTech sector. Adopting a We Are All Equal worldview, we address the challenge of discrimination laundering, wherein the system misinterprets infrastructure relatedaleatoric noise such as rural network timeouts as fraudulent intent. We implement a three-tier routing policy utilizing a calibrated ensemble model as a primary filter. The policy routes transactions characterized by epistemic uncertainty such as cold start new accounts to specialist analysts while reserving high stakes cases for a senior supervisor. To manage finite human capacity, we utilize a dynamic shadow price to ration human attention and implement a random audit mechanism to prevent human skill atrophy. Our experimental results demonstrate a statistically significant 1.88% complementarity gap and a 24.79% percentage point gain in fraud recall over an autonomous baseline. Crucially, the model reduces the regional performance gap from 19.43 to 2.88 percentage points, neutralizing structural bias.  \nHierarchical collaboration provides a robust mechanism for substantive equality of opportunity, ensuring that rural accounts are not excluded from the digital economy due to environmental brute luck.  \n1 Motivation  \nPoint-of-Sale (POS) agents have emerged as the critical backbone of financial inclusion in Nigeria, acting as human bank branches for millions of unbanked citizens. Platforms like Moniepoint and OPay rely on these agents to process high volumes of cash-in and cash-out transactions. However, the rapid growth of this sector has brought a surge in sophisticated fraud, ranging from the use of stolen cards to complex money laundering schemes. To manage this at scale, financial institutions have deployed algorithmic decision systems (ADS) to flag suspicious behavior in real time.  \nWhile these models are efficient in urban centers like Lagos, their deployment in rural sectors reveals a significant socio-technical failure. Traditional AI models often rely on data proxies such as transaction velocity or failed retry rates to estimate fraud risk. In the Nigerian context, these proxies inadvertently encode structural bias. Rural agents frequently suffer from poor 3G connectivity, leading to frequent transaction timeouts and multiple retries. Under a standard “What You See Is What You Get”(WYSWYG) worldview, the AI interprets this infrastructure-related aleatoric noise as a sign of fraudulent intent. This results in “discrimination laundering,” where the brute luck of an agent’s geographic location is converted into a low creditworthiness score, leading to automated rejection and permanent financial exclusion [3] .  \nIn this paper, we propose a hierarchical human-AI triage model designed to navigate the fidelityinterpretability trade-off. Moving beyond formal equality, we adopt a We Are All Equal (WAE) worldview to ensure substantive equality of opportunity for marginalized accounts. Our system implements a three-tier oversight regime: an autonomous AI filter for routine urban cases, a specialist analyst (Human 1) for infrastructure-related uncertainty, and a senior supervisor (Human 2) for high-stakes epistemic uncertainty. By calculating a dynamic shadow price to manage finite human capacity and utilizing random audits to prevent skill atrophy, we demonstrate that a collaborative team can neutralize structural bias while catching fraud that standalone models miss.  \n2 System Design and Decision Space  \nOur system is modeled as a multi-level triage framework where (Figure 1) a central routing policy π maps each incoming transaction to the most appropriate agent. 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