Chiraag Bains

Sep 13, 2024 | brookings.edu | Chiraag Bains

As developments in artificial intelligence (AI) accelerate, advocates have rightly focused on the technology’s potential to cause or exacerbate discrimination. Policymakers are considering a host of protections, from disclosure and audit requirements for AI products to prohibitions on the use of AI in sensitive contexts. At the top of their list should be an underappreciated but vital measure: legal liability for discrimination under the doctrine of disparate impact.

May 7, 2024 | brookings.edu | William H. Frey |Chiraag Bains |Andre Perry |Robert Maxim

Twenty-seven years since the last revision in 1997, the White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has altered its Statistical Policy Directive No. 15 (SPD 15)—providing a much-needed update in the standards for defining race and ethnic categories for use in data collection across all government agencies. The revised standards are not perfect, and OMB promises to continue monitoring their use.

Feb 17, 2023 | dispatchist.com | Chiraag Bains

President Joe Biden on Thursday ordered the federal government to do more to address racial inequality as the challenges and complexities of systemic racism are again drawing the public's attention.