[Lex Computer & Tech Group/LCTG] AI bias

[Robert Primak]

 Yes, there is a whole history of AI being used in place of human judgment in the hiring process. The results are seldom any improvement in the quality of new hires. And diversity goes straight to the trashcan, resulting in legal challenges. Companies then spend more time and money defending the AI than it would have taken to hire more humans to assure diversity compliance in the first place. 
-- Bob Primak 

    On Saturday, April 9, 2022, 10:47:22 AM EDT, john rudy <jjrudy1 at comcast.net> wrote:  
 
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I am taking an AI course and a major issue is the bias build into some AI systems.  If, for example, you pick new hires from those who were successful in the past you’ll mostly hire white males because those were who you mostly had in the past.  Here is a fascinating article from the course

https://www.wired.com/story/excerpt-from-automating-inequality/

  

John Rudy

781-861-0402

781-718-8334 (cell)

John.rudy at alum.mit.edu 

  

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