AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews.
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots.
https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/21/ai_hiring_test_bias/
It seems to be an overcorrection for previously detected bias in favor of Anglo-Saxon names.
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I don't know -- a lot of typically Anglo Saxon names are common among Black applicants, too. If they're discriminating against people named Brown, Johnson, Jackson, Smith, Jones, etc, they might actually be excluding more people of color than white people, who are likely to have names from multiple countries in Europe other than England.
@EileenKCarpenter You make a good point. The paper doesn't list the Anglo names. However, it is comparing four ethnic groupings - West African, East Asian, Middle Eastern, and Anglo-Saxon. I don't think that Blacks would be at a disadvantage, and some with African names might be advantaged.
https://kth.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:1905220/FULLTEXT01.pdf