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Beacon NY | 2019–10–18 | Today’s title is lifted from the Quote of the Day by Denise Caron, below, which caused a stir on Twitter when I posted it.
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Beware of Automated Hiring | Ifeoma Ajunwa isn’t down with algorithmic hiring and the argument that it might be less biased than people, as she describes in a new paper, The Paradox of Automation as Anti-Bias Intervention:
Automated hiring can create a closed loop system. Advertisements created by algorithms encourage certain people to send in their résumés. After the résumés have undergone automated culling, a lucky few are hired and then subjected to automated evaluation, the results of which are looped back to establish criteria for future job advertisements and selections. This system operates with no transparency or accountability built in to check that the criteria are fair to all job applicants.
One problem is that automated hiring platforms have enabled discrimination against job applicants. In 2017, the Illinois attorney general opened an investigation into several automated hiring platforms after complaints that a…
