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Even Robot Recruiters Are Biased

Artificial intelligence experts are debating whether technology is helping or harming diversity in workplaces. 

  

Photographer: John Taggart/Bloomberg

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Financial institutions are looking to shake off their pale, male, and stale reputations. Will handing over hiring decisions to machines make workplaces more diverse? Here we ask experts in the field of artificial intelligence and recruitment whether bias in machine learning models is a problem and, if so, what’s being done about it.

Ariel Procaccia
Associate professor in the computer science department at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh