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”
Good, those companies deserve to suffer for their stupidity.
The people who are marginalised by the process are the ones who will be doing the real suffering.
not good, the companies are not going to face any consequences for this unless something is done:
like every such extreme cost cutting measure, this is only going to hurt workers.