EEOC Settles First-of-Its-Kind AI Bias in Hiring Lawsuit (1)

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission settled its first-ever AI discrimination in hiring lawsuit, reaching an agreement with a tutoring company that allegedly programmed its recruitment software to automatically reject older applicants.

iTutorGroup Inc. will pay $365,000 to a group of rejected job seekers age 40 and over, according to a consent decree filed Wednesday in the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

The settlement comes amid the EEOC’s broader push to target discrimination that can occur when employers rely on artificial intelligence and machine learning tools for hiring and other workplace decisions.

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