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Re:Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Livi... by TheOperator on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:01PM (#22311030)
Who is to say the benefit of this algorithm isn't doing such filtering in a nominally neutral way? What if it turned out 40 year old Latino women with vision loss are top performers and the algorithms just naturally selected for them?
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Re:Cost Cutting Algorithms Are Making Your Job Search a Livi... by generaljelly on Wednesday February 12, 2020 @01:52PM (#22311562)
This is unlikely considering algorithms act on the given training data set, not on outliers imagined by playing devil's advocate:

remember amazon's recruiting program https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17958784/ai-recruiting-t...

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