AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants

As firms increasingly rely on artificial intelligence-driven hiring platforms, many highly qualified candidates are finding themselves on the cutting room floor.

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    8 months ago

    There isn’t really a good way to even define for diversity.

    The bad approach is the corporate token diversity, where every picture has to include a white, a black and an asian person, at least 50% have to be women and one of them has to wear a hijab. That might include many groups, but isn’t really representative.

    You could also use the “blind test” approach many tech solutions are using, where you simply leave out any hints to cultural background, but as has been shown, if the underlying data is biased, AIs will find that (for example by devaluing certain zip codes).

    And of course there’s the “equal opportunity” approach, where you try to represent the relevant groups in your selection like they are in the underlying population, but that is essentially *-ism by another name.