AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/27/ai-hiring-algorithms-reject-black-asian-job-seekers-at-higher-rates/5247387
AI hiring algorithms reject Black, Asian job seekers at higher rates
https://www.theregister.com/ai-ml/2026/05/27/ai-hiring-algorithms-reject-black-asian-job-seekers-at-higher-rates/5247387
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Because the original human-based hiring system was already biased so the algorithmic system does the same?
*Na-uh, it’s not discrimination. It’s AI!*
I would like to see more data on what AI also looked at.
For example – level of education completed/ high school diploma or GED and so on.
I bet there is a correlation there as well.
They also tend to reject anyone over 40. Hang on to your jobs kids!
Back in college, I received a surprise 400-dollar settlement check due the company discriminating against black and Asian candidates. I received an internship offer but still got the check lol.
Shocked Pikachu face.
it s just copying its training data
There shouldn’t be hiring algorithms…
You mean like humans do? Yes, that’s the model. Don’t expect more from AI than humans,
hope that asian guy that did all that for affirmative action realizes he was pawn
Le racisme 3.0 est bien réel c’est une folie anti sociale
This is just another artifact of non technical leadership rushing to capitalize on AI without fully understanding its risks. “Give me only applicants who do not need an H1B” might filter out people who have “H1B required” in their resume, or it might start throwing people with foreign sounding names in the garbage depending how your platform is designed, governed, and prompted.
Ai doesn’t hire job seekers. Hiring managers do.
Also, correlation doesn’t equal causation. It may be that AI algorithms are rejecting resumes from Black and Asian job seekers at higher rates, but that alone isn’t proof that their resumes are being rejected just because they’re Black or Asian.
I may sound countroversial, but…
> They made that determination by applying the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s “four-fifths rule,” which at least on paper elicits agency attention when a given group’s hiring selection rate is less than 80 percent of the most recommended group of job applicants.
It seems that the platform did not account for applicants’ races and for that has been deemed racist.
I don’t know what to say, honestly I don’t. I thought that it was racist to use race as a factor during hiring.
Oh, to have a functional Department of Justice and Consumer Protection Bureau. 😑
Things like this remind me how truly fucked up our government is right now.
So the thing trained on most likely American and European datasets is regurgitating behaviours found most in American and European industries?
How curious. I’m sure this says nothing about society.
Don’t know anybody that likes AI based hiring anyways, so let’s just ban them !
I’d suggest applying as a white woman with the same resume to check this bias out. It is funny. Might as well eff around with AI since it wants to eff around with our time.
Ohhh… im half and in the past it’s usually helped me for EO positions. I never thought in the new America it could harm me. I’ve been soundly rejected from hundreds of applications over the last 6 months. I wonder if this is why
Maybe I missed it in the article, but how is the AI determining ethnicity through the application?
Still, these was always used as a case study when I was learning about algorithms in college years ago
Maybe they’ll ship an LGBTQ compliance patch next.
No shit. It was designed by flawed individuals with flawed data. Unless AI is regulated accordingly, it will be the same thing over again.
I wonder why that is?
Asked. No. One. Ever.
Tell us something that WE DIDN’T know.
Oh man. It’s like that shit people been saying would happen is actually happening. Gasp.