It would seem to me that this is another symptom of overly concentrated industries. Automated hiring is driven by a desire to optimize - either to cut costs and

It would seem to me that this is another symptom of overly concentrated industries. Automated hiring is driven by a desire to optimize - either to cut costs and/or to handle a situation where applicants outnumber openings by an exponential number. Automated hiring is another concentrating, anti-people solution - we should be using anti-trust laws and regulation to create a system that encourages a greater number of firms, distributed over a much wider geography. That's the democratic solution to this problem, and abrogates the need for these types of solutions. I would also disagree with the premise of the article - the government has shown time and time again that they are not good at compliance. They are good at investigating and regulating. Trying to audit these systems is an impossible task that will wind up with the agency responsible captured by the industry. The only permanent, self-executing solution is to make the companies smaller such that these systems are no longer viable.