AI-powered recruitment tools that claim to remove discrimination from hiring are a growing market. These AI tools reduce race and gender to trivial data points, and often rely on personality analysis that is ‘automated pseudoscience’, argue researchers in a new paper. The academics have teamed up with computing students to debunk this use of AI by building a version of the kinds of software increasingly used by HR teams. It demonstrates how random changes in clothing or lighting give radically different personality readings that could prove make-or-break for a generation of job seekers.
