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

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Oh there is so much racist data that the AI is being trained on.

Your example is a simple one. But there are discriminations based on names for instance, so Johns are hired more than Quachin is, and that is by people, before it gets to the AI.