State adopts AI workplace decision-making rules
The hiring entity that outsources certain personnel functions to an AI provider and the AI provider may be liable for unlawfully discriminatory AI features.
On June 30, the California Civil Rights Council, the rulemaking arm of the Civil Rights Department, announced new artificial intelligence regulations, resulting from a yearslong process. According to the CRC, the new rules “provide increased clarity on how existing antidiscrimination laws apply to the use of artificial intelligence in employment decisions.” The regulations are timely. On July 3, the Wall Street Journal published an article headlined “CEOs Say It Loudly: AI Will Wipe Out Many Jobs.” The Journal quoted Ford Motor Chief Executive Jim Farley saying at a recent conference that AI would replace “literally half of all white-collar workers in the U.S.”
Click here to read the full article written by SCMV Shareholder Dan Eaton and published in The San Diego Union-Tribune.