"At another company, 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", says Schellmann.""
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240214-ai-recruiting-hiring-software-bias-discrimination
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Biased data encoded in automation perpetuates bias. From 2017 about the illusory "pipeline problem":
"Many of the top tech companies aren’t even recruiting at the HBCUs — Howard, Spelman. All these schools have CS programs,” he said.
So why aren’t big tech companies recruiting at HBCUs?"