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AI Systems That Automatically Reject Your Job Application
Episode 23 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the hidden world of applicant tracking systems (ATS) that automatically reject 75% of résumés before a human ever sees them. Lucas and Luna dive into how these AI filters, trained on historical hiring data from companies like Amazon and Unilever, can encode subtle biases against women, older workers, and non-traditional career paths. We break down the case of Amazon's 2015 automated hiring tool that penalized résumés containing the word 'women's' and discuss why today's ATS software still struggles with gaps in employment, unconventional job…
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