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EEOC explains how Title VII applies to AI used to select job candidates

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Source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity CommissionAlso reported by Proskauer

The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission released a technical assistance document on 18 May 2023, “Assessing Adverse Impact in Software, Algorithms, and Artificial Intelligence Used in Employment Selection Procedures Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964”. It explains how employers can check whether automated selection tools have a disparate impact on a protected group, and Chair Charlotte Burrows urged employers to run ongoing self-analysis of the tools they use.

Why it matters

US employers buying AI screening tools were told that existing civil rights law on adverse impact applies to them, whoever built the software.

When
18 May 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0058
Who
EEOC; Charlotte Burrows

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

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WTA-N-2023-0058: “EEOC explains how Title VII applies to AI used to select job candidates.” wheresthe.ai, 18 May 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/us-eeoc-ai-title-vii-technical-assistance-2023-05/ (source: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission).

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