Roundup: EU’s AI law; Recording terminations; Musk’s compensation reduction; Weight discrimination; Pay transparency

The EU is about to start regulating the use of AI in employment decisions. The requirements make sense, but I don't know if they will make a difference.

This is a great discussion about what we know so far about the requirements of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act.

Employees are recording their terminations and posting them on social media. It's not surprising. Between the humans, the bots, and GenAI, the internet is like a 6yr old copying his butt on the copier 9999 times. (If this seems oddly specific, it's because it happened. Butts everywhere!)

While Tesla was making a whole lot of money, there is a line where CEO compensation becomes excessive and becomes unfair to the company and the shareholders. Apparently 55.8 billion dollars, crony directors, and the fact that it wasn't Musk's full time job crossed it. Quelle surprise.

Humans judge each other harshly based on looks. Sure, part of this is probably based on evolution and sexual attraction, but that is not a good reason to make an employment decision.

It will be interesting to see how laws affect pay equity. But it's always more difficult to see in the aggregate. The good news is you are only responsible for your organization and the effect of pay transparency is much easier to figure out and track there. Here's how.