Schmidt: Using AI to infer candidate demographics is a massive mistake
Matthew Schmidt · People Logic Found a Signal in Our Tools We Never Knew to Look For · Jun 14, 2023 · at 37:38
PeopleLogic CEO Matthew Schmidt warns against allowing AI models to make autonomous hiring decisions or screen candidates based on inferred demographic characteristics.
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“It should not be making decisions, particularly in the hiring process based on those types of things, right? It should not say, oh, this text feels like it was written by someone who identifies as a female, right? Like if it starts to introduce those sorts of components You know, we're just setting ourselves up for a massive a massive fail.”
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