Groups Propose Guardrails Against AI-Based Hiring Discrimination
The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Leadership Conference Education Fund and more than two dozen other groups urged lawmakers, vendors and companies Wednesday to implement guardrails to ensure new hiring assessment technologies that rely on algorithms and artificial…
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intelligence don’t discriminate against marginalized groups. AI “by its very nature, risks replicating and deepening existing inequities when it relies on data from the current workforce that is not sufficiently representative,” the groups said in a set of principles. “Hiring assessment technologies must advance equity, not erect artificial barriers to employment. This will require proactive interventions.”