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
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The unintended consequences of AI-enabled HR
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
Understanding your disability demographic – data for disabled customers in India
Understanding your disability demographic – data for disabled customers in India. Using UK data to illustrate in general terms the impact of disability on consumers in India and their access to goods & services. Out of 1.4 Billion customers in India:
Understanding your disability demographic – sample data for a global corporate workforce
Using UK data to illustrate in general terms the impact of disability on a global corporate workforce of 500,000 employees, of which:
AI Powered Unfair Recruitment by Susan Scott-Parker OBE HonD
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
Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination?
Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination? The Centre for Democracy & Technology. Algorithm-driven hiring tools have grown increasingly prevalent in recent years. Thousands of job-seekers across the United States are now asked to record videos that employers mine for facial and vocal cues. Employers using these tools seek a fast and efficient… Continue reading Algorithm-driven Hiring Tools: Innovative Recruitment or Expedited Disability Discrimination?
Use of Artificial Intelligence to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities
Use of Artificial Intelligence to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities – A policy brief from the Employer Assistance and Resource Network on Disability Inclusion (EARN). The use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the workplace is becoming commonplace, including the use of AI to screen applicants, streamline the application process, provide on-the-job training, disseminate… Continue reading Use of Artificial Intelligence to facilitate employment opportunities for people with disabilities