Should companies be banned from using AI to screen job applications?

I think both sides are arguing about the wrong thing. The real question is whether the system is accountable. A well-designed screening tool, one that's tested for bias and restricted to job-relevant criteria, can do something humans almost never do: evaluate every applicant by the same standard, blind to name, photo, age, and accent. That's not hypothetical. New York City now requires employers to conduct independent bias audits of automated hiring tools and publish the results (NYC DCWP), which means these systems are becoming more transparent than human hiring has ever been. The answer to biased AI is audited AI, the same way the answer to biased lending wasn't "ban math" but fair-lending law. A ban throws away the one version of hiring that we can actually inspect and improve.