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Your Next Job Interview Could Be With a Racist Bot (thedailybeast.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Daily Beast: Companies across the nation are now using some rudimentary artificial intelligence, or AI, systems to screen out applicants before interviews commence and for the interviews themselves. As a Guardian article from March explained, many of these companies are having people interview in front of a camera that is connected to AI that analyzes their facial expressions, their voice and more. One of the top recruiting companies doing this, Hirevue, has large customers like Hilton and Unilever. Their AI scores people using thousands of data points and compares it to the scores of the best current employees. But that can be unintentionally problematic. As Recode pointed out, because most programmers are white men, these AI are actually often trained using white male faces and male voices. That can lead to misperceptions of black faces or female voices, which can lead to the AI making negative judgments about those people. The results could trend sexist or racist, but the employer who is using this AI would be able to shift the blame to a supposedly neutral technology. Companies are also having people do their first interview with an AI chatbot. "One popular AI that does this is called Mya, which promises a 70 percent decrease in hiring time," reports The Daily Beast. "Any number of questions these chatbots could ask could be proxies for race, gender or other factors."
No one said college is free, all other civilized countries offer it free so why is America so behind the rest of the world?
Wars don't end. We have been at war for 20 years, in fact I'm starting to believe we were always at war with East Asia at this point.
There is no such thing as an entitlement. Do you mean the legal agreement where workers paid in over 40 years only to have thier pension stolen and given to management? because if anything is undeserved it's that. Or do you mean the simple safety nets all other civilized countries have because they don't overspend on war profiteering or let companies off the hook on taxes and shift it to the poor?
If you would stop watching Fox News for 5 minutes you might realize the very low incomes of average Americans, compared to these other countries riding the free lunch wagon, despite the American economy being far better is the unfair redistribution of the wealth from the poor to the ultra rich. Stop the gritting and Americans would not only get all that free stuff, but massive returns each year.