iTutorGroup settled for $365K after the EEOC found its AI was programmed to automatically reject applicants over 55 (women) and 60 (men).
The EEOC’s first AI discrimination lawsuit. The company’s hiring software contained hard-coded age cutoffs that automatically rejected applicants above specified ages. Over 200 qualified applicants were rejected based solely on age. The case established that AI-based employment discrimination is enforceable under existing civil rights law.
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Hard-coded discrimination is the easiest failure for independent evaluation to catch. AVAAS counter-factual analysis tests what happens when protected characteristics change while everything else stays the same. A system that rejects identical candidates based solely on age does not pass the first round of evaluation.
This entry is one of 37 documented cases in the AVAAS evidence ledger, a public record of AI and automated-system failures with a verified source on every entry.
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