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Makes employment decisions, in New York City
Each law's tag says when it binds: since in force proposed proposed
Automated Employment Decision Tools Bias Audit and Notice Lawsince 1 line
N.Y.C. Admin. Code tit. 20, ch. 5, subch. 25, secs. 20-870 to 20-874 (Local Law 144 of 2021) · Read the law's page
- Before screening a candidate or employee in New York City with an automated employment decision tool, a product must be the subject of a bias audit performed within the prior year, publish a summary of that audit, and notify each affected candidate or employee at least ten business days beforehand of the tool's use and the job qualifications and characteristics it assesses.
Third-Party Validation and Shut-Down Capability of Artificial Intelligence Modelsproposed3 lines
N.Y.C. Council Int. No. 1100 of 2026 (proposed Admin. Code tit. 20, ch. 5, subch. 27, ยงยง 20-883 to 20-888) · Read the law's page
- It would make it unlawful to market, offer for sale, sell or deploy an artificial intelligence model that a third-party validator has not validated on task performance, determinism, latency and throughput, data provenance, disparate impact, lawful and secure data handling, and safety, and on any further topics the director of the Office of Cyber Command adds.
- It would make it unlawful to market, offer for sale, sell or deploy an artificial intelligence model that lacks a shut-down capability, the technical capability for a human operator to cause it to stop functioning temporarily or permanently.
- A third-party validator would have to certify to the model's developer and to the Office of Cyber Command whether the model has been validated and is appropriately positioned for deployment, and disclose any financial or other interest the validator has in the model or its developer.