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How Bias in AI Leads to Inequality on Steroids
AI’s perception of reality often mirrors our own biases — only they are projected onto a much larger canvas
When my partner told me the company he was doing a project for had started using AI to screen CVs, I just gave him a long, quiet look; the kind that says, ‘I really doubt this is going to end well.’
That was two years ago. Since then, AI has marched even further into the recruitment process, with an estimated 99% of Fortune 500 companies now . Recently, I’ve even come across several videos of people having job interviews, not with human beings, And as you might expect, the results are… weird. The AI interviewer glitches, repeats itself, spouts nonsense, or just goes completely silent. , it even ends up hiring the other AI interviewer. (Well, at least the machines have solidarity. That’s one thing humans could learn from them.)
But AI’s presence hardly ends with recruitment. Every day, it reaches deeper into our world, showing up everywhere from offices and hospitals to classrooms, lecture halls, and government institutions. And while it’s marketed as a tool to handle the dull, repetitive tasks no one wants to do, we’re instead increasingly asking it to replace human…
