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An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews | MIT Technology Review

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Since the onset of the pandemic, a growing number of companies have turned to AI to assist with their hiring. The most common systems involve using face-scanning algorithms, games, questions, or other evaluations to help determine which candidates to interview. While activists and scholars warn that these screening tools can perpetuate discrimination, the makers themselves argue that algorithmic hiring helps correct for human biases. Algorithms can be tested and tweaked, whereas human biases are much harder to correct—or so the thinking goes. In a December 2019 paper, researchers at Cornell reviewed the landscape of algorithmic screening companies to analyze their claims and practices. Of the 18 they identified with English-language websites, the majority marketed themselves as a fairer alternative to human-based hiring, suggesting that they were latching onto the heightened concern around these issues to tout their tools’ benefits and get more customers. But discrimination isn’t the o

An AI hiring firm says it can predict job hopping based on your interviews | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content Since the onset of the pandemic, a growing number of companies have turned to AI to assist with their hiring. The most common systems involve using face-scanning algorithms, games, questions, or other evaluations to help determine which candidates to interview. While activists and scholars warn that these screening tools can perpetuate discrimination, the makers themselves argue that algorithmic hiring helps correct for human biases. Algorithms can be tested and tweaked, whereas h

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