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AI hiring tools may be filtering out the best job applicants (www.bbc.com)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If you care about my appearance more than my ability to do the job I wouldn't want to work with you anyway.

I literally roll out of bed most mornings without looking in rhe mirror, walk up to my home office and start work. And I'm one of the best employees at my office.