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In NYC, companies will have to prove their AI hiring software isn't sexist or racist (www.nbcnews.com)
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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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[–] tdawg@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

We’ll the problem with that is you’d have to prove your hiring requirements aren’t exclusionary. Which isn’t going to happen until people start to examine their biasses on a societal level. The problem with AI isn’t that it’s biased. The problem is that both the dataset and the task given are biased. Which will always result in a biased system