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by zaarn 2811 days ago
That's not as easy as one might think.

Machine learning generally doesn't have any prior opinions about things and will learn any possible correlation in the data.

It could for example discover that certain words or sentence structures used in the resume are more likely associated with bad candidates. Later you find out that <protected class> has a huge amount of people that use these certain words/structures while most other people don't.

And now the AI discriminates against them.

ML will pick up on any possible signal including noise.