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

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A late-2023 IBM survey of more than 8,500 global IT professionals showed 42% of companies were using AI screening "to improve recruiting and human resources". Another 40% of respondents were considering integrating the technology.

Many leaders across the corporate world hoped AI recruiting tech would end biases in the hiring process. Yet in some cases, the opposite is happening. Some experts say these tools are inaccurately screening some of the most qualified job applicants – and concerns are growing the software may be excising the best candidates.

"We haven't seen a whole lot of evidence that there's no bias here… or that the tool picks out the most qualified candidates," says Hilke Schellmann, US-based author of the Algorithm: How AI Can Hijack Your Career and Steal Your Future, and an assistant professor of journalism at New York University.

She believes the biggest risk such software poses to jobs is not machines taking workers' positions, as is often feared – but rather preventing them from getting a role at all.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Huh, software trained on humans still has human biases, who would have thought this could be an issue..... If only there had been a way to see this coming.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

Lol software doesn't have biausys, it's computers! Trust me I went to business school.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 9 months ago

AI based on the behavior of HR replicates the practices of HR. News at 11.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

My imposter syndrome tells me that this is, personally, a good thing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Guess they're more drawn to resumes exhibiting artificial intelligence than actual intelligence.