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

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”

    • fiat_lux@kbin.social
      9·
      9 months ago

      The people who are marginalised by the process are the ones who will be doing the real suffering.

    • spujb@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      not good, the companies are not going to face any consequences for this unless something is done:

      Schellmann, meanwhile, is calling for industry-wide “guardrails and regulation” from governments or non-profits to ensure current problems do not persist. If there is no intervention now, she fears AI could make the workplace of the future more unequal than before.

      like every such extreme cost cutting measure, this is only going to hurt workers.