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

We already ran this experiment. In 2018 Reuters reported that Amazon had to scrap its own AI recruiting tool after discovering it systematically downgraded women's resumes, penalizing anything with the word "women's" in it, because it had been trained on a decade of male-dominated hiring data (Reuters). The machine didn't remove human bias. It industrialized it, applied it at scale, and hid it behind math nobody could interrogate. That's the core problem with AI screening: it launders discrimination. A hiring manager who rejects every resume from a women's college is a lawsuit waiting to happen. An algorithm that learned to do the same thing is a "proprietary model," and good luck proving why you never got the callback. The EEOC has already flagged that these tools can violate civil rights law (EEOC). Until every one of these systems is audited and explainable, letting them gatekeep people's livelihoods is reckless. Ban them.