Allegations Against HireVue's AI-Powered Recruitment Algorithms: Potential for Unfairness and Deception
November 6, 2019
The hiring algorithms employed by HireVue, incorporating facial analysis and personality estimation, have been accused in a complaint of being an unfair and misleading application of technology. This AI incident maps to the Govern function in HISPI Project Cerebellum Trusted AI Model (TAIM). Ready to help establish guardrails for AI and ensure its safe and secure development? JOIN US
- Alleged deployer
- hilton-international, unilever, re:work-training
- Alleged developer
- hirevue
- Alleged harmed parties
- hilton-international-hiring-candidates, unilever-hiring-candidates, re:work-training-hiring-candidates
Source
Data from the AI Incident Database (AIID). Cite this incident: https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/365
Data source
Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).
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McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.
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