The Use of Artificial Intelligence and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

AI recruitment tools are rapidly becoming the first filter in high‑volume hiring, but their unintended consequences risk excluding millions of disabled people from work. Just imagine: you lose your dream job because your stammer made you go 15 seconds over the video interview limit and the algorithm automatically rejects you. The submission highlights how standardised… Continue reading The Use of Artificial Intelligence and the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights

HR has an AI-powered Disability Problem

AI recruitment tools have become the first line of defence against high-volume online hiring. But unless the unintended consequences of AI-powered HR technology are urgently addressed, hundreds of millions worldwide face lifetimes of economic and societal exclusion. Just Imagine: You lose your dream job because your stammer caused you to go 15 seconds over the… Continue reading HR has an AI-powered Disability Problem

Disability, Bias, and AI

Disability, Bias, and AI – AI Now Institute, New York University. On March 28, 2019, the AI Now Institute at New York University (NYU), the NYU Center for Disability Studies, and Microsoft convened disability scholars, AI developers, and computer science and human-computer interaction researchers to discuss the intersection of disability, bias, and AI, and to… Continue reading Disability, Bias, and AI

EARN/PEAT Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities

EARN/PEAT ‘Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities Through the Use of eRecruiting Screening Systems, Including AI’. More and more companies recognize that a workforce representative of the population at large results in a more effective and innovative organization. Reflecting this, many are taking proactive steps to increase the recruitment, hiring, advancement,… Continue reading EARN/PEAT Checklist for Employers: Facilitating the Hiring of People with Disabilities

Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies

Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies – Authors – Lydia X. Z. Brown, Ridhi Shetty, Matt Scherer, Andrew Crawford – The Center for Democracy & Technology. Algorithmic technologies are everywhere. This ubiquity of algorithmic technologies has pervaded every aspect of modern life, and the algorithms are improving. But while algorithmic technologies may become… Continue reading Ableism And Disability Discrimination In New Surveillance Technologies

AI Powered Unfair Recruitment by Susan Scott-Parker OBE HonD

Contribution to the Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo and NAIAC by Susan Scott-Parker OBE September 26, 2023

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… Continue reading AI Powered Unfair Recruitment by Susan Scott-Parker OBE HonD

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities on Artificial Intelligence

Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities on Artificial Intelligence – published December 2021. The Special Rapporteur’s report on Artificial intelligence and the rights of persons with disabilities addresses the rapid growth in the use of artificial intelligence, automated decision-making and machine-learning technologies from a disability rights perspective. These new… Continue reading Report of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities on Artificial Intelligence