Increasing Liabilities of AI

Among the unfortunate are a family, for example, Hector Hernandez-Garcia who, alongside his wife and newborn son, became temporarily homeless after being mistakenly profiled by such an algorithm. Hernandez-Garcia sued; the company settled. Another precedent was the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System, used by the state to monitor filing for unemployment benefits, which was also recently claimed to have falsely accused thousands of citizens of fraud. Class action lawsuits have been filed against the state, professing a myriad of problems with the system that's used and demonstrating how automated systems induce harm that are hard-to-detect. Furthermore, the recent lawsuit against Clearview AI, filed in Illinois near the end of May by the ACLU (American Civil Liberties Union) and a leading privacy class action law firm, alleging that the company's algorithms breached the state's Biometric Information Privacy Act.