The massive and intensive use of digital technologies for the management and provision of social benefits, programmes or assistance has entailed several challenges for human rights standards. This work focuses on the challenges that algorithmic opacity and discrimination raise for the so-called digital welfare State. Within this approach, the article attempts to be a theoretical contribution to the increasing discussion about digital governance and its dystopian potential, which may be of interest to the debates that are taking place in Chile, in particular, regarding social rights within the current constituent process and a future artificial intelligence policy.