Policy Action · Petition
PASS THE AI CIVIL RIGHTS ACT
Civil rights for the algorithm age.
Algorithms decide who gets a job, a loan, a home, and who gets policed. Put civil rights at the center of AI. Pass H.R. 6356 / S. 3308.
TAKE ACTION★ THE BILL
Tracked from congress.gov · reintroduced each Congress until it passes.
★ WHAT'S HAPPENING
THE SITUATION
AI now decides who gets hired, approved for a loan, screened as a tenant, flagged by police, or approved for benefits, often with documented racial bias and no transparency. Civil-rights law hasn't caught up.
Sen. Ed Markey and Rep. Yvette Clarke, Chair of the Congressional Black Caucus, reintroduced the AI Civil Rights Act on Dec 2, 2025 as H.R. 6356 in the House and S. 3308 in the Senate, to require bias testing, transparency, and accountability for automated decision systems.
★ WHAT'S AT RISK
- Hiring, lending, housing, healthcare, policing, and benefits decisions are increasingly automated — with no transparency and documented racial bias.
- Facial recognition misidentifies Black and Asian faces at far higher rates (NIST) — driving wrongful stops and arrests.
- Civil-rights law hasn't kept pace — little testing, disclosure, or accountability for automated decisions.
★ IN PLAIN TERMS
Automated decision system — Software — an algorithm or AI — that decides outcomes like who gets hired, a loan, housing, or bail, often with no human review or transparency.
Algorithmic bias — When those systems produce worse results for some groups — e.g., facial recognition misidentifying Black and Asian faces far more often.
★ WHY IT MATTERS
10–100×
higher false-match rates for Black & Asian faces in facial recognition (NIST)
Facial recognition misidentifies Black and Asian faces at far higher rates (NIST) — fueling wrongful stops and arrests. Algorithms have denied loans, screened out tenants, and targeted communities by race. The tools deciding our futures must answer to democratic accountability, not corporate secrecy.
★ WHO'S CARRYING THIS FIGHT
From the Capitol to the streets, this is the line of power behind the bill.
★ RUBRIC SCORES
How we score every fight in our Campaign Lab — so we put power where it changes lives.
Viability
Low-Medium
Recommendation
Coalition First
Justice & Freedom Agenda
Tech, AI & Digital Justice
Democracy
Protecting
Repair
Non-Repair
Public health
Moderate
Why this viability: It won't pass this Congress, but the harm is documented and the coalition is real — the win is building undeniable public + state-level pressure.
★ WIN PATH · Winnable with pressure
Chokepoint: Congress + the states · The play: Drive on-record cosponsors; win state-level AI civil-rights laws · Leverage: Documented bias audits · public + coalition power
Eight-systems impact
Historical pattern: Automated redlining — new technology encoding old discrimination at scale, with no accountability.
★ WHAT WE'RE DEMANDING
Pass the AI Civil Rights Act (H.R. 6356 / S. 3308) and require bias testing, transparency, and accountability for the algorithms making high-stakes decisions about our lives.
★ THE RECEIPTS
10–100×
higher false-match rates for Black & Asian faces (facial recognition)
Source: NIST 2019
Dec 2025
reintroduced by Markey + Clarke (CBC Chair)
Source: markey.senate.gov
Hiring · loans · housing · policing
decisions now run by algorithms
Source: Lawyers’ Committee
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