As of 13 August 2026, AI can check interview questions for UK equality law risks.

What to actually do

1. Hand it to a person

   The route this page recommends

   Someone with a licence or accountable authority has to sign this before it counts.

2. Use a tool built for this

   Second choice

3. Do it yourself

   The distant third

   A chat interface, chat-fluent skill, and roughly 30 minutes until you can act on the result.

   How to actually do it

   1. Open the interview question document and gather the role summary, essential requirements, interview stage, scoring criteria and whether every candidate will receive the same questions.
   2. Open GOV.UK employment and equality guidance and note any relevant rules or employer responsibilities before asking the model to review the material.
   3. Paste the gathered context and the complete question set into a chatbot, then send the prompt exactly as written.
   4. Separate the model's output into questions to keep, rewrite and remove, and record the reason given for each proposed change.
   5. Compare every legal point against current GOV.UK or Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance, and send ambiguous, high-risk or disputed points to a UK employment solicitor.
   6. Give the approved questions and scoring criteria to the interview panel, instruct them to use the same process for every candidate, and keep the final review record with the recruitment documents.

   Prompt

   You are reviewing interview questions for a UK employer. This is a first-pass risk review, not professional advice. Use the Equality Act and current UK employment guidance where relevant, but do not pretend to know facts that are missing and do not give a final legal clearance.
   
   Role and essential requirements:
   [PASTE ROLE SUMMARY AND OBJECTIVE, EVIDENCE-BASED REQUIREMENTS]
   
   Interview stage and format:
   [PASTE STAGE, PANEL, FORMAT AND WHETHER QUESTIONS ARE ASKED OF EVERY CANDIDATE]
   
   Scoring criteria:
   [PASTE THE CRITERIA AND ANY WEIGHTING]
   
   Questions to review:
   [PASTE ALL QUESTIONS]
   
   For each question, give:
   1. The exact question being reviewed.
   2. A risk rating of low, medium or high, with no rating where there is not enough information.
   3. The possible UK equality-law or fair-selection concern in plain English.
   4. Whether the concern is direct discrimination, indirect discrimination, disability-related disadvantage, an irrelevant personal question, inconsistent treatment, or another concern.
   5. The missing context that could change the assessment.
   6. A safer replacement question that tests the stated job requirement using the same structure for every candidate.
   7. A short note on what evidence the panel should score.
   
   Then provide:
   - a clean revised question set;
   - questions that should be removed rather than rewritten;
   - points that need checking against current GOV.UK or Equality and Human Rights Commission guidance;
   - cases that should be referred to a UK employment solicitor before use.
   
   Do not infer a candidate's protected characteristics. Do not advise the panel to ask for medical or personal information. Do not invent legal authorities, cases, policies or facts. Separate factual observations from legal uncertainty.

   Open it prefilled in ChatGPT or Claude, or copy it into Gemini, which takes no prefill link.