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United Kingdom

UK Equality Act 2010

Protected characteristic obligations that apply to AI used in employment, recruitment, and service delivery decisions, covering direct and indirect discrimination risk.

Who it applies to

  • UK employers using AI in recruitment, hiring or promotion
  • Service providers using AI in customer-facing decisions
  • Vendors supplying AI tools that influence protected groups

Core obligations

  • Avoid direct and indirect discrimination in AI-driven decisions
  • Assess disparate impact across protected characteristics
  • Maintain records evidencing fairness testing
  • Provide human review of consequential AI outputs

How Vigil24 helps

  • Flags AI tools influencing employment or service decisions
  • Tracks fairness-testing evidence per tool
  • Maps human-review controls to each use case