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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/technology

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an AI resume screener had been trained on CVs of employees already at the firm, giving people extra marks if they listed "baseball" or "basketball" – hobbies that were linked to more successful staff, often men. Those who mentioned "softball" – typically women – were downgraded.

Marginalised groups often "fall through the cracks, because they have different hobbies, they went to different schools"

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[–] jj4211 12 points 11 months ago

They use their brains just fine. They know AI is clickbait gold, and That's all that matters.

A few well informed people get turned off by it? Who cares, they got a big chunk of readers from news aggregators.