"Using AI tools for hiring"...this is when i like to remind myself that google, basically at some point in the last 12-24 months was like "OH CRAP, we forgot to tell our robots about black people!". Like, I'm not saying google is at the forefront of ML - maybe it is, but it sure as hell is out in front somewhere and more to the point most companies are likely not gonna be using cutting edge technology for this stuff. EVEN GOOGLE, admitted their ML for images is poorly optimized for POC's, i hate to think what some random ML algorithm used by company X thinks about differently abled peoples
There are companies selling products which screen hiring candidates based on video of them talking. Ostensibly for determining personality traits or whatever. So yes, this literally exists in hiring.
While image processing dark skin may not be germane to AIs doing hiring, the idea that unintentional discrimination from ML models could occur in the context of hiring is certainly worth considering and I believe it's the entire point of the technical assistance document released today.
