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Certain use of artificial intelligence prohibition provision

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Minnesota S.F. No. 4573 has not been enacted. It was introduced and referred to the Senate Judiciary and Public Safety committee on 2026-03-18. If enacted, it would add Subdivision 9 to Minnesota Statutes 2024, section 363A.08, the state's human rights law on unfair employment practices. Subd. 9(a) defines "artificial intelligence" as a machine-based system that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers from its input how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, and decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments. Subd. 9(b) would make it an unfair employment practice for an employer to do either of two things in recruitment, hiring, promotion, renewal of employment, selection for training or apprenticeship, discharge, discipline, tenure, or the terms, privileges, or conditions of employment. Under clause (1), the employer could not use AI that has the effect of subjecting an employee or applicant to discrimination because of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity, marital status, status with regard to public assistance, familial status, membership or activity in a local commission, disability, sexual orientation, or age. Under clause (2), the employer could not fail to notify an employee or applicant that it is using AI for those purposes.

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