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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">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. </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">-- Bob Primak </div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div><br></div>
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On Saturday, April 9, 2022, 10:47:22 AM EDT, john rudy <jjrudy1@comcast.net> wrote:
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--></style><div><div class="yiv6783145201WordSection1"><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">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</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" href="https://www.wired.com/story/excerpt-from-automating-inequality/">https://www.wired.com/story/excerpt-from-automating-inequality/</a></span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">John Rudy</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-861-0402</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">781-718-8334 (cell)</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"><a rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" ymailto="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu" target="_blank" href="mailto:John.rudy@alum.mit.edu">John.rudy@alum.mit.edu</a> </span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">13 Hawthorne Lane</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;">Bedford, MA 01730-1047</span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"><img border="0" width="99" height="94" style="width:1.0312in;min-height:.9791in;" id="yiv6783145201Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:8dhAe6cyIXBc9VSlR6ko" yahoo_partid="1.2"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial, sans-serif;"></span></p><p class="yiv6783145201MsoNormal"> </p></div></div></div>===============================================<br>::The Lexington Computer and Technology Group Mailing List::<br>Reply goes to sender only; Reply All to send to list.<br>Send to the list: <a ymailto="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us" href="mailto:LCTG@lists.toku.us">LCTG@lists.toku.us</a> Message archives: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/private.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/private.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br>To subscribe: email <a ymailto="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-subscribe@toku.us">lctg-subscribe@toku.us</a> To unsubscribe: email <a ymailto="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us" href="mailto:lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us">lctg-unsubscribe@toku.us</a><br>Future and Past meeting information: <a href="http://LCTG.toku.us" target="_blank">http://LCTG.toku.us</a><br>List information: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/listinfo.cgi/lctg-toku.us</a><br>This message was sent to <a ymailto="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com." href="mailto:bobprimak@yahoo.com.">bobprimak@yahoo.com.</a><br>Set your list options: <a href="http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com" target="_blank">http://lists.toku.us/options.cgi/lctg-toku.us/bobprimak@yahoo.com</a></div>
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