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Claims AI Can Boost Workplace Diversity Are 'Spurious and Dangerous'
AI recruitment tools could become sources of misinformation about how recruitment can be 'de-biased,' researchers say.
A report on AI tools said to cancel out human biases against gender and ethnicity during workplace recruitment are little better than an "automated pseudoscience," according to a report by researchers from Cambridge's Centre for Gender Studies published in Philosophy and Technology.
Companies' use of the tools is an example of "technosolutionism," of turning to technology to provide quick fixes for deep-rooted discrimination issues that require investment and changes to company culture, say researchers Eleanor Drage and Kerry Mackereth.
Using AI tools to narrow candidate pools may ultimately increase uniformity rather than diversity in the workforce, as the technology is calibrated to search for the employer's fantasy "ideal candidate," the researchers say. Algorithms honed using past data are likely to consider candidates who closely resemble the current workforce the best fit.
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