AI Powered Unfair Recruitment by Susan Scott-Parker OBE HonD.
Recruiters are increasingly using AI Screening to recruit people who match as ‘microanalytically’ as possible the company’s ‘Ideal Hire’: that is, who match someone who already works for them. Disabled people, are at least twice as likely as anyone else to be excluded from the labour market, and so are highly unlikely to be any employer’s ‘ideal’ colleague. Yet neither AI developers nor their employer customers nor those influencing the ethical AI debate have even begun to address the potential impact of this fast-moving technology on the world’s more than 1.3 Billion persons with disabilities.