Will California Join Illinois in Limiting Use of Artificial Intelligence in Hiring Decisions?
Supposedly, the reason for using an AI program to evaluate potential job candidates is to eliminate bias that might be held by human evaluators. But privacy and worker advocates have been concerned about the expansive nature of the evaluation that is done. AI can be programmed to analyze facial expressions and/or eye contact, the speed of a person's response, and other non-verbal cues that are not generally considered relevant to most job applicants.