Illinois: consent to an AI assessment of an interview
On 9 August 2019 the Governor of Illinois approved the Artificial Intelligence Video Interview Act, in force from 1 January 2020: an employer that has AI analyse a video recorded by an applicant must, before the interview, say so, explain how the AI works and what general types of characteristics it evaluates, and obtain consent; without consent the AI is not used.
Why it matters
A state law named artificial intelligence in hiring decisions and required that applicants be told how they are assessed. It regulates a procedure, not outcomes: whether the tool screens anyone out unfairly is a question the act does not ask.
The whole act has four sections. Section 5: notice, explanation and consent, all before the applicant is asked to record a video. Section 10: videos shared only with persons whose expertise or technology is needed to evaluate the applicant. Section 15: on request, deletion within 30 days, and instructions to everyone who received copies, backups included, to delete them. The act sets no penalty and no right of action and requires no audit or bias test. The text was read in an archived copy of the General Assembly's PDF and the dates in an archived copy of the status of bill HB2557.