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Technology,
Labor/Employment

Jul. 22, 2024

Growing scrutiny for bias in AI hiring software

A novel discrimination lawsuit against Workday Inc.'s applicant screening software has been filed by Derek Mobley, a 50-year-old Black man who claimed he was rejected from more than 100 positions he applied to through the defendant's screening program.

Leonid M. Zilberman

California labor and employment attorneys say a novel discrimination lawsuit against Workday Inc.'s applicant screening software that tests the limits of artificial intelligence liability in hiring practices may get to the heart of how these language processing models are trained.

"If the training models receive bad data and illegal information, they spit out illegal decisions. So, what you're dealing with is potential discrimination on a much larger scale," comm...

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