Webinar: Artificial Intelligence In Employment: Legal Risks And Regulatory Responses

The proliferation of artificial intelligence ("AI") has slowly fueled the technology's introduction into unprecedented areas. Indeed, large technology firms are now offering AI capable of assisting or altogether automating an employer's hiring, performance management, and disciplinary processes. As employers increasingly adopt this technology to screen resumes, analyze interviews, and issue disciplinary decisions, they are realizing considerable efficiency gains and saving valuable management resources.

While most employers may think of AI as a tool capable of objectively evaluating job applicants and employees, the technology is not immune from bias. As research has demonstrated, AI presents a risk of adopting any biases embedded in its code or that it detects in prior employment practices. A critical question then arises when this automated technology makes a decision that implicates employment laws. For example, if an employer utilizing AI learns that the tool