The European Union already classified AI used in hiring as high risk under the AI Act, which means strict obligations around data quality, documentation, human oversight, and fundamental rights impact assessments (EU AI Act overview). They did this because employment determines whether people eat. That's the position of the largest regulatory bloc on earth, applied to systems that decide livelihoods. The US debate keeps framing a ban as anti innovation, but the innovation in question is mostly startups selling statistical discrimination as a service. If the product can't survive high risk classification, the product is the problem.
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