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”

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    9 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.