My favorite part of the screening AI debate is the accountability shell game. The vendor says the tool is just decision support. The employer says they trust the vendor's validation. The candidate gets rejected and everyone points at everyone else, and somehow the only party with no recourse is the person who needed the job. We don't accept this logic anywhere else. If a landlord's software rejects your rental application, the Fair Housing Act still has something to say about it (HUD). Employment deserves at least the same seriousness. 'The computer said no' is just an admission that nobody is in charge. Ban the tool, and suddenly a human has to sign their name to the rejection again. Funny how accountability works.
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