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

Classical music solved this problem in the 1970s. Orchestras started holding blind auditions with musicians playing behind a screen, and the share of women hired jumped dramatically. The screen didn't make the judges less human. It removed the information that triggered their bias. Goldin and Rouse documented this in one of the most famous labor economics papers ever written (Goldin and Rouse, 2000). A well built screening model is the screen. It can be configured to ignore names, photos, addresses, graduation years, all the proxies humans use to discriminate without realizing it. Banning the screen because bad screens exist is like banning blind auditions because some orchestra once put a hole in the curtain. Fix the implementations. Keep the screen.