Requires AI-powered tools used in employment decisions to undergo bias audits; requires related public disclosures and notices to affected employees and job candidates.
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This is a binding local law enacted by the New York City Council with mandatory requirements, civil penalties for non-compliance, and formal enforcement mechanisms through designated tribunals and the corporation counsel.
The document has good coverage of approximately 3-4 subdomains, with strong focus on unfair discrimination (1.1), unequal performance across groups (1.3), and lack of transparency (7.4). Coverage is concentrated in discrimination/toxicity and AI system safety domains, specifically addressing employment-related algorithmic bias and transparency requirements.
This regulation applies broadly across all economic sectors that employ workers or use employment agencies within New York City. The law governs AI use in employment decisions across all industries, making it cross-sectoral in nature. All 14 sectors are potentially governed as they all involve employment practices.
The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, requiring bias audits before deployment and ongoing transparency obligations during operation. It also implicitly covers Verify and Validate through mandatory bias audit requirements.
The document explicitly defines and covers 'automated employment decision tools' which are AI systems. It describes these as computational processes derived from machine learning, statistical modeling, data analytics, or artificial intelligence. The document does not mention frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.
New York City Council; Council Members Cumbo, Ampry-Samuel, Rosenthal, Cornegy, Kallos, Adams, Louis, Chin, Cabrera, Rose, Gibson, Brannan, Rivera, Levine, Ayala, Miller, Levin and Barron
The document is a local law enacted by the New York City Council, with specific council members listed as sponsors in the header.
office of administrative trials and hearings; corporation counsel; department; commission on human rights
The law designates the corporation counsel and the office of administrative trials and hearings as enforcement bodies, with authority to initiate proceedings and impose penalties. The commission on human rights is also referenced as having enforcement authority.
independent auditor
The law requires bias audits to be conducted by independent auditors, who serve as monitors of compliance with the tool's fairness requirements. The results must be made publicly available.
employers; employment agencies
The law explicitly targets employers and employment agencies that use automated employment decision tools within New York City to screen candidates or employees.
5 subdomains (3 Good, 2 Minimal)