News Flash: #Algorithmic #Hiring is biased! (Algorithmic decisionmaking in general is biased, like all decisionmaking.) This knowledge reached pop culture status by at least 2017 with the book Technically Wrong, so it’s not like we shouldn’t have known th

News Flash: #Algorithmic #Hiring is biased! (Algorithmic decisionmaking in general is biased, like all decisionmaking.) This knowledge reached pop culture status by at least 2017 with the book Technically Wrong, so it’s not like we shouldn’t have known this. https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection TL;DR: companies using the small number of popular AI applicant screening systems are collectively excluding 1 in 10 applicants *from every job they apply for*. Maybe if you’re a recruiter/hiring manager who’s required to use AI screening tools, do a pass through the applications that the AI screened out to try to spot false negatives. There’s a chance you find a matching candidate for your role who you don’t have to compete with any other companies to hire and who will be grateful that a human finally looked at their resume.