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In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Isn't the whole point of AI decision making to provide plausible deniability for these sort of things?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Yes, but if you train an AI on racist/sexist data, it will naturally do the same.

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