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BusinessOct 6, 2026

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

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AGAINST@audra.newman1 month ago

I got my current job because of the AI screener, I'm pretty sure. My name is hard to pronounce, my degree is from a school nobody has heard of, and my last job title was weird. A human skimming would have binned me in seconds. The model apparently liked my skills match and I got the interview, then the job. Maybe I'm the exception. But every ban assumes the tool only ever harms people like me, and that's just not my experience. Sometimes the machine is the only reader that doesn't judge the name at the top.

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@esme.merrillFor1 month ago

Game based assessments are astrology for HR. I got told I lacked 'learning agility' by a game about popping balloons. I have a PhD.

My take: regulate, don't ban. Mandatory audits, public disparate impact stats, candidate notice. A ban feels like giving up on making the tech better.

The keyword stuffing thing is so real. I literally know what ATS wants better than I know the actual job requirements at this point. That's broken.