FILE - The OpenAI logo is seen on a mobile phone in front of a computer screen displaying output from ChatGPT, March 21, 2023, in Boston. State lawmakers’ first attempts at curtailing discrimination in artificial intelligence programs that play a hidden role American’s lives are floundering across the country. Only Colorado’s bill has been signed by the governor. FILE - Colorado Gov. Jared Polis in the House of Representatives chamber in the State Capitol, Jan. 17, 2023, in Denver.
The seven bills are more ambitious, applying across major industries and targeting discrimination, one of the technology’s most perverse and complex problems. “Not, I should say, that the old systems were perfectly free from bias either,” said Webber. But “any one person could only look at so many resumes in the day. So you could only make so many biased decisions in one day and the computer can do it rapidly across large numbers of people.”
Webber’s class action lawsuit alleges that an AI system that scores rental applications disproportionately assigned lower scores to Black or Hispanic applicants. A study found that an AI system built to assess medical needs Colorado’s bill will require companies using AI to help make consequential decisions for Americans to annually assess their AI for potential bias; implement an oversight program within the company; tell the state attorney general if discrimination was found; and inform to customers when an AI was used to help make a decision for them, including an option to appeal.