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

Every hiring technology gets this exact moral panic. Job boards were going to dehumanize hiring. LinkedIn was going to dehumanize hiring. Applicant tracking systems were going to dehumanize hiring. And yet somehow humans still interview humans at the end of all of it, because the AI doesn't do the hiring, it does the sorting, which is the boring part nobody wanted to do anyway. Nobody writes an essay about the dignity of having your resume sit in a pile of four hundred on someone's desk for three weeks. That was the old system. It wasn't humane. It was just slow. Banning the tool won't bring back some golden age of careful human consideration, because that golden age never existed. It will just make hiring slower and more nepotistic, and everyone will pretend that's more ethical because a person did it.