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In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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AI-infused hiring programs have drawn scrutiny, most notably over whether they end up exhibiting biases based on the data they’re trained on.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unequal outcomes isn’t evidence of bias.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not inherently, but things can be tested.

If you have a bunch of otherwise identical résumés, with the only difference being the racial connotation of the name, and the AI gives significantly different results, there's an identifiable problem.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

That makes sense: empirical tests of the AI as you describe.