By The Byte
Published on September 12, 2024
Despite little evidence that it’s a good idea, Nevada is moving forward with plans to use artificial intelligence to decide who gets unemployment benefits.
In an interview with Gizmodo, the director of Nevada’s Department of Employment, Training, and Rehabilitation agency — which, yes, is ironically acronym-ed as DETR — insisted that its decision making algorithm will have at least one human “referee” to make sure it’s not messing up.
“There’s no AI [written decisions] that are going out without having human interaction and that human review,” DETR’s director, Christopher Sewell, told the website. “We can get decisions out quicker so that it actually helps the claimant.”