New EEOC Enforcement Playbook Features AI Hiring Bias Focus (2)

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is doubling down on its decision to turn attention to artificial intelligence hiring tools through its newly finalized enforcement plan, over eight months after it released the draft version.

The EEOC’s Strategic Enforcement Plan for 2024-2028, published in the Federal Register on Thursday, prioritizes addressing discriminatory recruitment and hiring practices that take into account an employer’s use of AI and machine learning to target, recruit, and screen potential applicants or make hiring decisions that exclude protected groups on the basis of color, sex, race, or other EEOC enforced statutes.

The five-member ...