On Aug. 9, 2023, a tutoring company agreed to pay $365,000 to settle an artificial intelligence (AI) lawsuit with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). The settlement comes on the heels of multiple EEOC warnings to employers about potential discrimination associated with the use of AI for hiring and workplace decisions.
According to the EEOC’s complaint against iTutorGroup, the Company programmed its application review software to automatically reject female applicants aged 55 or older and male applicants aged 60 or older. One rejected applicant realized they may have been the victim of discrimination when, after resubmitting an application with a more recent birth date but which was otherwise identical to the rejected application, they were offered an interview.
