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

Nobody told me. That's the whole argument. I applied to eleven jobs last spring and found out months later, from a friend in HR at one of the companies, that my applications had been scored by a third party model before any human saw them. I never consented to that. I never even knew which vendor held my data. We require consent for cookies on a website and for text message marketing, but a machine can score your employability in secret and that's fine? A hiring process you can't see is a hiring process you can't challenge. Ban the secret scoring. If a company wants AI in the loop, it can say so in the job posting and let candidates opt out. Illinois at least requires notice and consent before AI analyzes a video interview (Illinois AI Video Interview Act). The rest of the country gets silence.