Episode #11 - The future of recruitment now AI is here

Paul & Sean are back with another great episode, looking at the world of AI.

The conversation delves into the alarming biases present in modern AI hiring tools, highlighting how these systems favor certain demographics over others.

They discuss the statistical disparities in name recognition based on race and gender, revealing a troubling trend in the hiring process that reflects broader societal inequalities.

Takeaways

modern AI hiring tools are showing strong radical and gender bias when ranking for job applicants. models favored white sounding names 85 % of the time, while black sounding names were only favored 9 % of the time. female names were preferred just 11 % of the time. the AI never once ranked a black male named higher than a white male name. it’s astonishing, because we go back to the data that’s been fed into these. it’s shocking, isn’t it?

Paul and Sean can be found here:

Paul Rhodes – paul@ggapps.co.uk 01527306370

Sean Sale – sean@justapplications.co.uk 0121 2851047

Resources:

Here are recommended sources for further research:

• “Should I Trust the Artificial Intelligence to Recruit …” – Frontiers. Frontiers
• “Ethics and discrimination in artificial intelligence-enabled recruitment” – Nature. Nature
• “AI in Resume Screening: Expectations vs Reality” – Vervoe blog. Vervoe
• Podcast: The Recruiting Future Podcast — including “Are We Really Ready For AI?” episode. Recruitingfuture.com
• Podcast: Recruitment AI Weekly — case studies and insights. MrWork