10/23/2023 10:00 AM EDT
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EEOC, AI AND HR: The federal agency tasked with enforcing workplace equity has made clear it wants to guide businesses on how to deal with AI, with the aim of avoiding having to seek relief in court — and it may be able to do more with its new Democratic majority.
Employers, meanwhile, are watching the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s AI moves with caution.
“This is really a new civil rights frontier,” EEOC Chair Charlotte Burrows said at a Brookings Institution event Wednesday.
Now, with a Democratic majority, Burrows might have an easier time revising the so-called uniform guidelines for employee selection procedures — the hiring guidelines for employers provided by the federal government, which haven’t been updated since the 1970s, said Victoria Lipnic, former acting GOP EEOC chair and a partner at Resolution Economics.
Lipnic said changes to the procedures need not necessarily come on partisan lines, given bipartisan interest on the commission about addressing AI. But having a partisan majority could make securing support for changes easier, especially given that any revisions would have to go through other federal entities that co-own the procedures, including the Justice Department.
Businesses in general don’t want agencies to “over-tinker” with their existing authority in making rules for AI, said...
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