Ban the screening AI and watch what happens next. Recruiters won't suddenly become impartial monks. They will do what they did before: Google the candidate, scroll LinkedIn, look at the photo, check the name, guess the age from the graduation year, all in about ninety seconds, with zero documentation and zero audit trail. The bias doesn't disappear. It migrates to the least regulated part of the process, the part where it's completely invisible. At least the AI leaves logs. At least the AI can be sued with statistics. You can't run a four fifths rule analysis on someone's Instagram impression. The ban doesn't remove discrimination from hiring. It just makes it unprovable.
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