Using AI in HR for Recruiting & Hiring - Legal Risks, Governance & Practical Safeguards

Introduction

This webinar will identify where artificial intelligence is already being used across recruitment and hiring processes, while examining the key legal and regulatory risks associated with those applications.

It will assess the circumstances in which the use of AI may give rise to discrimination, data protection, or transparency concerns and will outline practical governance measures that organisations can apply to mitigate legal risk while continuing to realise the commercial benefits of AI-driven tools.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Is AI already in your recruitment process?
• What we mean by ‘AI’ in HR (screening, ranking, shortlisting, video analysis, chatbots)
• Why recruitment and hiring are legally high-risk use cases
• AI as a management and governance issue
• Common AI use cases in recruiting and hiring
• CV screening and ranking tools
• Automated shortlisting and scoring
• Video interviewing and behavioural analysis
• Psychometric and predictive ‘fit’ tools
• Third-party platforms vs internally configured tools
• Where HR teams often lose visibility or control
• Discrimination and fairness risks
• How AI can replicate or amplify bias
• Indirect discrimination risks in recruitment algorithms
• Protected characteristics and proxy data
• Evidential challenges: explaining and justifying outcomes
• Liability risks for employers even where tools are vendor-supplied
• Data protection and transparency issues
• Lawful bases for AI-driven recruitment processing
• Automated decision-making and human oversight
• Transparency obligations to candidates
• Subject access requests and ‘black box’ problems
• Retention, data minimisation, and audit trails
• Governance, compliance and risk mitigation
• When AI use should trigger enhanced risk assessment
• Practical governance steps
• Aligning legal compliance with ethical and reputational considerations
• Conclusions and next steps
• Recruitment AI is a current risk
• HR and legal have shared ownership of AI governance
• Focus on explainability, oversight, and evidence
• When to escalate for specialist legal advice

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Tuesday 2nd June 2026

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