Labor Law: Employment discrimination and artificial intelligence, employers beware

These new technologies, while promising in many respects, have garnered the attention of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, which last year launched the Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative. The EEOC announced the initiative's intended mission "to ensure that the use of software, including artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning and other emerging technologies used in hiring and other employment decisions comply with the federal civil rights laws that the EEOC enforces."