{"id":193522,"date":"2026-03-06T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T20:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/06\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T17:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T22:45:11","slug":"the-impact-of-new-york-anti-discrimination-amendments-on-ai-use-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c","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-ogletree-deakins-nash-smoak-stewart-p-c\/","title":{"rendered":"The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak &#038; Stewart, P.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-2170612\/\">The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak &#038; Stewart, P.C.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-2170612\/\">https:\/\/www.jdsupra.com\/legalnews\/the-impact-of-new-york-anti-2170612\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-03-06 15:15:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.jdsupra.com\">www.jdsupra.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On December 19, 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul signed legislation amending the New York State Human Rights Law (NYSHRL) to recognize disparate impact as a basis for employment discrimination claims, irrespective of intent.<\/li>\n<li>This amendment aligns New York&#8217;s stance with the prior jurisprudence even as it diverges from federal actions under President Trump, which directed federal agencies to deprioritize similar claims.<\/li>\n<li>The legislation specifically recognizes that practices can result in a discriminatory impact if they affect groups in a protected class under the NYSHRL differently, even without discriminatory intent.<\/li>\n<li>The amended NYSHRL, especially in relation to increasing AI use in employment, may raise the scrutiny of AI systems used in decision-making due to their potential disparate impact on protected groups.<\/li>\n<li>Employers might benefit from documenting AI use and proactively auditing any AI systems to mitigate litigation risks associated with a potential disparate impact, in light of the amendment.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Impact of New York Anti-Discrimination Amendments on AI Use | Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":193523,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/jdsupra-static.s3.amazonaws.com\/profile-images\/og.14838_2817.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522"}],"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=193522"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":193524,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193522\/revisions\/193524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}