Artificial Intelligence Hiring Bias Spurs Scrutiny and New Regs

With New York City's passage of one of the toughest U.S. laws regulating the use of artificial intelligence tools in the workplace, federal officials are signaling that they too want to scrutinize how that new technology is being used to sift through a growing job applicant pool without running afoul of civil rights laws and baking in discrimination. The use of that new technology in hiring and other employment decisions is growing, but its volume remains hard to quantify, and the regulations aimed at combating bias in its application may be difficult to implement, academics and employment attorneys say. "Basically, these are largely untested technologies with virtually no oversight," said Lisa Kresge, research and policy associate at the University of California, Berkeley Labor Center, who studies the intersection of technological change and inequality. We have rules about pesticides or safety on the shop floor. We have these digital technologies, and in virtual space, and that ...