Can bots discriminate? It's a big question as companies use AI for hiring

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Artificial intelligence-based hiring tools may be creating discriminatory barriers to employment, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. The agency is seeking input on how to prevent harm.

around the use of cutting-edge hiring tools, noting many of their shortcomings.

Older workers may be disadvantaged by AI-based tools in multiple ways, AARP senior advisor Heather Tinsley-Fix said in her testimony during the hearing. In a lawsuit filed by the EEOC, a woman who applied for a job with a tutoring company only realized the company had set an age cutoff after she re-applied for the same job, and supplied a different birth date.Tuesday's panelists, a group that included computer scientists, civil rights advocates, and employment attorneys, agreed that audits are necessary to ensure that the software used by companies avoids intentional or unintentional biases.

 

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