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The new program looks to educate employers and employees about how algorithms are used in hiring and other employment decisions.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission wants to make sure new technologies used in hiring, firing and promotion decisions abide by civil rights laws, even if the people using those technologies don’t have a fundamental understanding of how they work. Artificial intelligence tools are being used in the public and private sector to help employers find potential employees and make hiring and retention decisions.
But those technologies carry inherent risks, including automating biases and systemic issues for organizations. To combat this, the EEOC recently launched a new initiative to catalog those potential harms and educate employers and employees about how best to use these technologies without causing civil rights issues.