Compensation Benchmarking with AI

Recruiting is the highest-risk AI use case in HR — the regulators have said so explicitly (EU AI Act Article 6 + Annex III §4(a); Illinois HB 3773 effective Jan 1 2026; EEOC Title VII liability). Master the doctrine (AI as triage layer, not gatekeeper), the 4 named guardrails (audit the dataset, blind protected variables, quarterly diverse calibration panel, human decision-maker with documented rationale), and the audit trail that an auditor or plaintiff's counsel expects to see — mapped to Articles 13, 14, 15, 26, 27 of the EU AI Act and the EEOC's 2023 technical assistance