"On Tuesday morning, a cohort of Democratic lawmakers reintroduced the Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act, a bill that would establish protections for individual civil rights when someone's personal data is processed by algorithms for a diverse range of consequential life decisions. Spearheaded by Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., along with Sens. Cory Booker, D-N.J., and Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., and Reps. Yvette Clarke, D-N.Y., and Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., the AI Civil Right Act's comes as Markey asserts tech companies are lobbying to include a recently defeated moratorium on AI regulations at the state level in this year's National Defense Authorization Act."
"In addition to overtly banning algorithmic discrimination - defined broadly as when an algorithm's decision is unfair to a given user based on a class of protected traits, like race, gender and disability status - the bill stipulates that algorithm developers must "take reasonable measures" in preventing algorithm-enabled harm, including conducting independent software audits and pre-deployment assessments, displaying accurate advertising and consulting relevant community stakeholders that may be impacted by algorithm-based decision-making."
The Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act would establish civil-rights protections when personal data is processed by algorithms for consequential life decisions. The bill targets algorithmic use across employment, education, housing, health care, financial services and similar domains. The proposal bans algorithmic discrimination defined by unfair outcomes tied to protected traits and requires developers to take reasonable measures to prevent harm. Required measures include independent software audits, pre-deployment assessments, accurate advertising and consultation with impacted community stakeholders. The bill cites concerns about tech-industry lobbying and potential preemption of state AI regulations, and rests on principles of equity, accountability and choice.
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