Artificial intelligence used to evaluate job candidates must not become a tool that exacerbates discrimination.
By Alexandra Reeve Givens, Hilke Schellmann and Julia Stoyanovich
Ms. Givens is the chief executive of the Center for Democracy & Technology. Ms. Schellman and Dr. Stoyanovich are professors at New York University focusing on artificial intelligence.
March 17, 2021
Credit.Lisk Feng
American democracy depends on everyone having equal access to work. But in reality, people of color, women, those with disabilities and other marginalized groups experience unemployment or underemployment at disproportionately high rates, especially amid the economic fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic. Now the use of artificial intelligence technology for hiring may exacerbate those problems and further bake bias into the hiring process.