Triple Payouts Approved for Jobless Claims Stripped by Faulty AI

More than 3,000 Michiganders are finally going to be compensated, a judge ruled Monday, after fighting for more than eight years against a faulty computer program that denied them unemployment benefits for “fraud” and clawed back their wages and tax benefits.

“Artificial Intelligence is not a substitute for human judgment, period,” class co-lead counsel Michael Pitt of Pitt, McGehee, Palmer, Bonanni & Rivers PC told Bloomberg Law after the hearing. “Algorithms can’t judge people properly—the machines are stupid when it comes to that.”

Court of Claims Judge Douglas B. Shapiro said he’d give final approval to a roughly $20 million ...