{"id":65421,"date":"2018-12-15T16:01:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=65421"},"modified":"2018-12-15T16:19:30","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T21:19:30","slug":"all-automated-hiring-software-is-prone-to-bias-by-default-technologyreview-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2018\/12\/15\/all-automated-hiring-software-is-prone-to-bias-by-default-technologyreview-com\/","title":{"rendered":"All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default [technologyreview.com]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/the-download\/612586\/all-automated-hiring-software-is-prone-to-bias-by-default\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from technologyreview.com<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">A\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.upturn.org\/reports\/2018\/hiring-algorithms\/\">new report<\/a>\u00a0out from nonprofit Upturn analyzed some of the most prominent hiring algorithms on the market and found that by default, such algorithms are prone to bias.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>The hiring steps:<\/strong>\u00a0Algorithms have been made to automate four primary stages of the hiring process: sourcing, screening, interviewing, and selection. The analysis found that while predictive tools were rarely deployed to make that final choice on who to hire, they were commonly used throughout these stages to reject people.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\"><strong>\u201cBecause there are so many different points in that process where biases can emerge, employers should definitely proceed with caution,\u201d says Bogen. \u201cThey should be transparent about what predictive tools they are using and take whatever steps they can to proactively detect and address biases that arise\u2014and if they can\u2019t confidently do that, they should pull the plug.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>All automated hiring software is prone to bias by default &#8212; from technologyreview.com Excerpt: A\u00a0new report\u00a0out from nonprofit Upturn analyzed some of the most prominent hiring algorithms on the market and found that by default, such algorithms are prone to bias. The hiring steps:\u00a0Algorithms have been made to automate four primary stages of the hiring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[356,174,112,480,454,195,299],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence-agents-llms-and-related","category-career-development","category-corporate-business-world","category-society","category-the-downsides-of-technology","category-tools","category-workplace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65421"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65422,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421\/revisions\/65422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}