#NYC aims to be first to rein in #AI #hiring tools

The bill was recently watered down so that it effectively just asks employers to meet existing requirements under U.S. civil rights laws prohibiting hiring practices that have a disparate impact based on race, #ethnicity or #gender. (...) The burden of these audits falls on the vendors of the tools to show that they comply with some rudimentary set of requirements that are very easy to meet.

source: https://techxplore.com/news/2021-11-nyc-aims-rein-ai-hiring.html

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