Illinois House Bill 2557 (2019)

Requires employers in Illinois using AI for video interview analysis to notify applicants, explain AI functionality, and obtain consent. Prohibits sharing videos except with necessary evaluators. Instructs employers to delete videos upon applicant request within 30 days.

  • Authority: Illinois
  • Parent authority: State governments
  • Jurisdiction: United States
  • Collections: U.S. state and local documents
  • Most recent activity: Enacted
  • Most recent activity date: 2019-02-13

Risk subdomain coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the risk subdomain are explicitly described.

  • Compromise of privacy
  • Lack of transparency or interpretability

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

  • Unfair discrimination and misrepresentation
  • Overreliance and unsafe use
  • Loss of human agency and autonomy

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

The document has good coverage of approximately 4-5 subdomains, with strong focus on privacy compromise (2.1), unfair discrimination (1.1), lack of transparency (7.4), and overreliance/unsafe use (5.1). Coverage is concentrated in privacy, discrimination, and AI system transparency domains.

Sector coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

  • Agriculture, Mining, Construction & Manufacturing
  • Trade, Transportation & Utilities
  • Information
  • Finance & Insurance
  • Real Estate, Rental & Leasing
  • Professional & Technical Services
  • Scientific Research & Development Services
  • Management, Administrative & Support Services
  • Educational Services
  • Health Care & Social Assistance
  • Arts, Entertainment & Recreation
  • Accommodation, Food & Other Services
  • Public Administration (excl. National Security)
  • National Security

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This legislation governs AI use across all employment sectors in Illinois, as it applies to any employer using AI for video interview analysis. The regulation is sector-agnostic and applies horizontally across all industries that hire employees in Illinois.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding state statute enacted by the Illinois General Assembly with mandatory obligations on employers using AI for video interview analysis, enforceable through legal mechanisms.

Actors

Proposer

  • Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
  • Entities: Illinois General Assembly
  • Summary: The document is enacted by the Illinois General Assembly as indicated in the opening clause, making it the proposing legislative body.

Target

  • Entity Types: AI_Deployer
  • Summary: The document explicitly targets employers in Illinois who use AI to analyze video interviews of job applicants, making them AI deployers in the employment context.

Enforcer

  • Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
  • Summary: While no specific enforcement body is named in the document, as a state statute, enforcement would fall to Illinois state courts and relevant regulatory agencies with jurisdiction over employment law.

Monitor

  • Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
  • Summary: No specific monitoring body is explicitly named in the document. Monitoring would likely fall to Illinois employment regulatory agencies, though this is not explicitly stated.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

  • Collect and Process Data
  • Deploy
  • Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily focuses on the Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle, with specific requirements for how employers must deploy AI video interview analysis systems and monitor their use through transparency, consent, and data deletion mechanisms.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

  • AI Systems
  • Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions artificial intelligence and AI analysis systems used for evaluating video interviews. It does not specify particular types of AI (frontier, general purpose, generative, etc.) or technical thresholds, focusing instead on the functional application of AI in employment screening.

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