Algorithms discriminate because people do, jobs agency finds
Dutch NewsAlgorithms used in the recruitment of staff are confirming existing prejudices, research by the Radboud University commissioned by jobs website Nationale Vacaturebank has found. The jobs agency matched 9,000 anonymous CVs with 12 million job descriptions using artificial intelligence. It found women and men were matched with jobs in traditionally female and male sectors like childcare and the building trade, and that women were linked to jobs earning significantly less money. What we see is that women are less likely to get certain jobs because it has always been men that have been selected for them.’ The jobs agency wants to use self learning systems more often to match people to jobs but sometimes they learn the wrong things, Schoenmacker said.
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