US’s First State AI Bias Law Lets Job Seekers Fight Rejections

May 22, 2024, 4:44 PM UTC

Colorado job applicants will be entitled to challenge a company’s decision not to hire them, one of the litany of employer obligations and worker rights in the state’s sweeping new law aimed at mitigating bias in artificial intelligence.

The measure (SB 205) is the most comprehensive law to date governing US employers’ use of automated decision-making tools such as resume and job candidate screening software, employment lawyers said. The details of what the law ultimately will require when it takes effect in February 2026 hinge on the guidance or rulemaking Colorado’s attorney general is expected to issue, plus ...

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