Moms Face Bias from AI Resume-Screeners. A recent study shows that Fortune 500 companies who are using AI to screen job applicants are getting short changed. Why you ask?
The AI screeners are listing women who have taken maternity leave or childcare leave. The AI listed that as a Liability. So, odds are that these women might not be hired even if qualified.
These AI programs are used by Fortune 500 companies to screen resumes and match potential applicants with open positions, according to the U.K.’s Daily Mail.The researchers analyzed three “large language model” advanced AI programs: ChatGPT, Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Bard.
The researchers found that as information such as maternity leave and breaks taken from work for the sake of child care were added to the resumes, that information had a significant effect on how the resumes were read by the AI screening programs.
