{"id":193395,"date":"2026-03-06T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T10:40:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T15:40:11","slug":"the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/\">The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/\">https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 10:29:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"ogletree.com\">ogletree.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The New York State Human Rights Law now recognizes disparate impact claims, which stands in contrast to President Trump\u2019s executive order directing the deprioritization of such claims by federal agencies.<\/li>\n<li>Disparate impact can occur with the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in employment decision-making processes.<\/li>\n<li>The practice is considered discriminatory when it has a disparate impact on protected classes under the NYSHRL.<\/li>\n<li>New York\u2019s amendment diverges from the federal stance on disparate impact, potentially leading to increased state law discrimination claims, particularly for employers using AI tools.<\/li>\n<li>The use of AI could lead to additional scrutiny in administrative or legal proceedings if it causes a disparate impact on protected classes, despite employers\u2019 best intentions to increase efficiencies.<\/li>\n<li>Proactive measures such as conducting bias audits and proactively evaluating AI tools are important to help defend against potential discrimination claims, alongside documenting job-relatedness and business necessity for AI-assisted employment practices.<\/li>\n<li>Companies are encouraged to carefully document the justification and deployment of AI systems to bolster defenses in discrimination cases, where applicable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use https:\/\/ogletree.com\/insights-resources\/blog-posts\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use\/ Publish Date: 2026-03-06 10:29:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ogletree.com\/app\/uploads\/Insights\/state-development\/new-york.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-193395","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193395"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193395"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193395\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193397,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193395\/revisions\/193397"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193395"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193395"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193395"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}