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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    8 months ago

    Good. If your company uses AI to hire humans for human tasks, fuck your company. Those companies don’t deserve human workers, let alone the best candidates.