Next up, something I’m very interested in: bias in hiring algorithms. Can it be made better? #FAT2020 with @manish_raghavan we’re gonna find out.
Looking at vendors like HireVue and others, specifically all their publicly available information on steps they’ve taken to “de-bias”.
One in particular, a video interview platform, scores people on how they answer questions. This is bad, but it’s not the only bad thing in the space (ugh, lol). Another example grades your online behavior playing a little game....... to predict your job performance???
Also: question-based AI assessments. Personality tools, etc. There are a wide variety of tools out there, and a lot of variance. Important question: where does the data come from? (Always good to ask).
Love this: only some of these companies build custom models. So many products just use off-the-shelf things that are trained on some unknown dataset the company doesn’t have access to. (Great plan 🤨)
And now, their claims: “Yes, we know models are biased, but WE FIXED IT!” Good thing, too, because there are discrimination laws that can get you if you’re wrong... Creates legal liability but not necessarily explicitly illegal.
Recommendations: We Need Better Laws (this is the name of my next mixtape, jk).
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