<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:garamond,serif;font-size:large"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-a346257a-7fff-6c47-7257-da73daa0a82c"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt">Hi friends - I wanted to share this exciting update from my team with you! </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">As employers strive to make their hiring processes faster and more efficient, algorithm-driven hiring tools are growing increasingly popular. Vendors market these tools as an efficient way to identify skills, aptitudes, and “cultural fit” – in ways that humans cannot. While algorithm-driven hiring tools may offer quick solutions, </span><a href="https://cdt.org/insights/faster-is-not-always-better-disability-discrimination-in-algorithm-driven-hiring-tools/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">faster does not always mean better</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">. This is especially true when these tools reinforce disability-based discrimination in ways that may violate the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">A </span><a href="https://cdt.org/insights/report-algorithm-driven-hiring-tools-innovative-recruitment-or-expedited-disability-discrimination/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">new report from CDT</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> explores employers’ potential liability under the ADA when they use algorithm-driven hiring tools. Employers must provide hiring tests in formats that are accessible to people with disabilities, only use selection criteria that are necessary to essential job functions, and provide reasonable accommodations to bridge the gap between employers and qualified disabled people. Our report explains how algorithm-driven hiring tools may fail to meet these obligations, instead amplifying hiring disparities for disabled people – many of whom face employment barriers at multiple levels of marginalization. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Algorithmic discrimination based on disability is uniquely difficult to quantify or mitigate, as people can have vastly different experiences of each of the many kinds of disabilities. Regardless, algorithm-driven hiring tools must be designed, examined, and regulated with this diversity of disability experiences in mind. </span><a href="https://cdt.org/insights/report-algorithm-driven-hiring-tools-innovative-recruitment-or-expedited-disability-discrimination/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Our report</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> explains steps that employers, vendors, policymakers, and job-seekers can take to make these tools more fair, improve their accuracy, and increase accountability. We hope our report guides stakeholders to ensure that these tools do not push people with disabilities further out of an already biased and ever-evolving job market.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:nor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