U of I researcher says AI is making job searching more difficult
URBANA, Ill. (WCIA) — Some researchers say applying for a job and getting a callback is becoming harder to achieve, but it isn’t necessarily because of under-qualified applicants.
Michael LeRoy, with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, says artificial intelligence is now shrinking some candidate pools. Before, there were human employees who would sift through applications, but with the growth of online job boards and the influx of candidates, artificial intelligence became the easy solution.
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Now, the technology has implicit bias based on the current diversity of a workplace and that bias is crossing off candidates before they even make it to the first step.
“If that is in fact how these hiring platforms work, by the time a human being sits down and looks at how the applicant pool has been shaped by the AI platform, you don’t get a representative sample of the qualified people,” said LeRoy.
He says the more these cases are reported and tried, the greater the awareness for the general public. LeRoy will be taking his research to a symposium at Notre Dame this upcoming Friday.
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