Artificial Intelligence Civil Rights Act of 2025

This bill would bar companies that build or use computer algorithms, including artificial intelligence, from using them in ways that discriminate against people based on traits such as race, sex, disability, age, or income in important decisions like jobs, housing, loans, health care, education, and elections. Before using such an algorithm, companies would have to check whether it could cause harm and, if harm is plausible, hire an independent auditor to evaluate it, with yearly reviews after it is in use. Companies would have to post public disclosures, give people short notices, and send evaluations to the Federal Trade Commission, which would publish them in a public online repository. The Commission would write rules on when people can choose a human instead of an algorithm and appeal decisions to a human, and it would enforce the law, with enforcement also provided for states and private lawsuits.

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Sponsors

• Edward J. Markey Democrat sponsor
• 4 cosponsors