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The Biased Recruiter Inside Your Job Application
Every year, millions of job applications are filtered by algorithms that claim to be objective. But a 2023 study of Amazon's now-defunct AI recruiting tool revealed something disturbing: the system systematically downgraded resumes containing the word 'women's' — as in 'women's chess club captain' or 'women's soccer league president.' Lucas and Luna unpack how that bias crept in, why it wasn't caught until after deployment, and what it means for the hundreds of companies now using AI to screen candidates. They explore the 2018 Reuters investigation that first flagged the problem, the internal…
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