White men applying for executive positions have a new hurdle in their way: artificial intelligence.
Fresh research promoted by a new AI watchdog has revealed that resume audit filters used by mega-corporations to help identify the best candidates for top jobs have a secret bias that favors black people over white people and women over men.
Overall, the bias favors black people and women by 12%, but in some tests of the “cultural” words or references used in resumes between black women and white men, such as the colleges they attended, the bias can reach 50%.
“Given that these systems are already being deployed at scale in high-stakes decision-making scenarios, this represents an urgent problem requiring immediate attention,” said the scholarly study of AI resume audits
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