{"id":1910229,"date":"2023-04-05T18:13:16","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T22:13:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employers-are-liable-for-discriminatory-hiring-learned-by-artificial-intelligence-eeoc\/"},"modified":"2023-04-05T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T22:13:57","slug":"employers-are-liable-for-discriminatory-hiring-learned-by-artificial-intelligence-eeoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/employers-are-liable-for-discriminatory-hiring-learned-by-artificial-intelligence-eeoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Employers are liable for discriminatory hiring learned by artificial intelligence: EEOC"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Femployers-are-liable-for-discriminatory-hiring-learned-by-artificial-intelligence-eeoc%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1910229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47-->\n<p><html><br \/>\n   <body><\/p>\n<div class=\"RichTextArticleBody-body RichTextBody\">\n<p>Companies that use artificial intelligence for hiring and employee performance-tracking hold legal liability for discriminatory outcomes caused by the algorithms, said Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. At a Federalist Society event, Sonderling emphasized that companies cannot use computer-derived outcomes as a legal defense for discriminatory practices.<\/p>\n<p>A recent study shows that 83% of large employers use artificial intelligence for some form of employee decision-making\u2014from hiring to firing. The technology is used to filter resumes, to answer applicant questions and schedule interviews, to monitor productivity and safety, and to predict an applicant&#8217;s potential for success.<\/p>\n<p>As the trend continues to grow, new legal questions surrounding liability for employment discrimination are being posed to courts. Sonderling believes there is a human element required for making lawful diversity goals for hiring. Therefore, if a company makes a hiring decision based on something other than skill and merit, it would be considered an &#8220;unlawful decision.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For example, an algorithm can be fed discriminatory information in order to obtain a diversity outcome, downgrading job applicants who meet or do not meet certain criteria not related to skills or merit, such as age or race. The technology can also &#8220;inherit&#8221; the discriminatory practices of a company and apply them to future applicant pools. <\/p>\n<p>Several issues make overseeing and regulating AI difficult, including the &#8220;black box&#8221; issue, where it is impossible to determine how an algorithm arrived at a certain outcome. Additionally, employees are often unaware they are being evaluated using AI technology. <\/p>\n<p>Sonderling believes employers must remember that AI is not the sole solution for all employment challenges, and personal human intervention must continue to play critical roles in employment decisions.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>   <\/body><br \/>\n<\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporations that use artificial intelligence for hiring and employee performance tracking are legally liable for discriminatory outcomes produced by the algorithms , according to a top federal official charged with enforcing workplace laws. At a Federalist Society discussion Tuesday, Keith Sonderling, commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, said companies cannot use the fact that<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1910230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[14839,10734,23607,12796,4061,4786,6378,17571],"class_list":["post-1910229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-discriminatory","tag-artificial","tag-eeoc","tag-employers","tag-hiring","tag-intelligence","tag-learned","tag-liable"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1910229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1910229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1910230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1910229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1910229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1910229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}