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I truly don't doubt it's possible for the AI to be 'racist'. >If the AI had recommended Black and Asian candidates at the same rate as it recommended the most-

I truly don't doubt it's possible for the AI to be 'racist'. >If the AI had recommended Black and Asian candidates at the same rate as it recommended the most-favored group (typically white applicants), 40,000 more of their applications would have advanced to the next stage of hiring. I don't think this is the right benchmark here, or at least, it would be very interesting if the actual outcome, offer or rejected, was considered at the end.

gacgacgac 3mo ago
You are misreading this sentence. This sentence is saying: "Using a constructed dataset of resumes, whose only difference was a name change, we would anticipate a system evaluating on qualifications to produce an equal distribution of candidates across names. Our observed result was highly unequal, and that warrants further investigation."
- _0ffh 3mo ago
  To me it appears as if the study using the constructed dataset was a completely different one than the one that was concerned with AI. For the AI study real data from "3.4 million people who submit 4 million job applications to 1,700 job postings across 150 employers and 11 industry sectors" was used.