Welcome to AccelPro Employment Law, where we provide expert interviews and coaching to accelerate your professional development. Today we’re featuring a conversation about the EEOC and AI in the workplace. Our guest is Jim Keaney, a senior associate at Sandberg Phoenix.
Keaney walks us through the EEOC’s Artificial Intelligence and Algorithmic Fairness Initiative. Keaney says the EEOC has taken a broad view of technology because it changes so quickly and so often, and the law often has a hard time keeping up.
Keaney says “the main takeaway is for employers to talk to the software providers, ask questions, ask hard questions.” That way, even if you make mis-steps along the way, the EEOC appears willing to take your efforts into consideration. “The more of a due diligence background paper trail you can develop, the more likely I think you’re just not going to have as much of a headache from the EEOC on that issue,” he says.
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