The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) recent public hearing on the discriminatory impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) in the employment context demonstrated both the EEOC’s increasing attention to and greater sophistication with the issue. The one-sidedness of the witness list raises concern, however, about where the EEOC may be heading.
The hearing featured 12 subject-matter experts who generally offered informative testimony. Most of the witnesses were academics or affiliates of worker advocacy groups who stressed AI’s risk more than its promise and advocated for more regulation to prevent AI’s allegedly inherent discriminatory impacts. Notably, none of the witnesses at the hearing represented developers of AI or similar technology.
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