#algorithmic-discrimination

#algorithmic-discrimination

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.

A "discriminatory" artificial intelligence (AI) model used by Sweden's social security agency to flag people for benefit fraud investigations has been suspended, following an intervention by the country's Data Protection Authority (IMY). Starting in June 2025, IMY's involvement was prompted after a joint investigation from Lighthouse Reports and Svenska Dagbladet (SvB) revealed in November 2024 that a machine learning (ML) system being used by Försäkringskassan, Sweden's Social Insurance Agency was disproportionally and wrongly flagging certain groups for further investigation over social benefits fraud.

In the US, Trump is considering using an executive order to ban regulations to rein in AI, according to , while in Europe, the European Commission said it wants to delay some aspects of the AI Act in response to complaints from big tech over bureaucracy. With no federal laws regulating AI forthcoming in the US, some states have pushed to enact their own local legislation, including recent laws in California and Colorado.

Uber's fare pricing algorithm, introduced in July 2022, utilizes extensive data from drivers and passengers to determine fares for rides. This results in significant wage discrepancies among drivers, even for identical routes.