Artificial intelligence. Law. Governance.
Key topic
Automated decision-making at work, from hiring to monitoring and termination.
Analysis
Four records suggest that as a hiring mechanism becomes less legible, a plaintiff may reach filing without the rule, the model, or the group-level evidence needed to test it. None establishes that opacity caused the gap, or that discovery will close it.
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One city requires an automated hiring tool to be audited by an independent auditor and a summary of the result published. The official record through June 2025, which its auditors did not vouch for as complete, shows two complaints, no civil penalty, no notice of violation, and no proceeding at the city tribunal.
Read moreN.D. Cal. (Judge Rita F. Lin) · No. 3:23-cv-00770-RFL
A federal collective action testing whether an AI screening vendor can be liable as an agent of employers under Title VII, the ADEA, and disability law. A nationwide ADEA collective was preliminarily certified for notice purposes on May 16, 2025, and the court ordered the acquired HiredScore tool included.
E.D.N.Y. (Judge Pamela K. Chen) · No. 1:22-cv-02565-PKC-PK
An age discrimination suit resolved by consent decree over tutor application software programmed to reject applicants above fixed ages. Widely described as the first AI hiring discrimination settlement, though the agency never called it that and the mechanism was a hard-coded rule rather than a learned model.
E.D. Mich. (Judge Terrence G. Berg) · No. 2:25-cv-12403
A pleaded class action alleging that an applicant tracking system screened African-American applicants out through variables correlated with race. The defendant denies using automated screening at all, making this a test of how a disparate-impact claim is proved when no discriminatory rule can be pointed to.
New York City · binding law
New York City's automated employment decision tool law. It requires an annual independent bias audit, publication of the audit summary, and advance candidate notice. The only official measurement of its enforcement records two complaints and no penalties.