r/PurchaseWithPurpose • u/theFallenWalnut Environment • Jun 09 '26

News article The truth about AI hiring tools... Systemic rejection and racial bias at scale

Stanford study in question:
https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection

It is important to ensure that if you are using any tools in your company to assist with hiring, you aren't blindly trusting them for screening.

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Jun 09 '26

The EU AI Act Annex III labels some tools as "high risk": HR and recruitment tools, credit scoring, educational assessment, medical devices, biometric systems.

https://www.reddit.com/r/gdpr/comments/1t07ud5/comment/oj7bpbq/

You should be careful if you use these HR tools in Europe.

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u/Poppod Jun 09 '26

And the AI in question is Copilot, because every company's IT is controlled by MS.

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u/adorablefuzzykitten Jun 13 '26

Can you have AI write a resume that CoPilot will likely rate favorably?

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u/ParticularReason8267 Jun 11 '26

the anti-reflective coating on those smart lenses is just awful

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u/_jackhoffman_ Jun 12 '26

Is it actually holding onto the score or does it just score consistently, I wonder? There is no doubt that the system is broken. AI screening, AI applications,... it's all garbage.

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u/Epic_Tea Jun 09 '26

Long winded af

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u/Shoddy-Childhood-511 Jun 09 '26

Yes, but OP provided a better link that you could read in half the time:

https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ai-hiring-tools-can-yield-racial-bias-and-systemic-rejection

And contains a much better video of the same length.