Cole Lowell

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

I build these systems, so let me tell you what the ban side gets wrong about the tech. Modern hiring models can be explicitly constrained for fairness in ways no human interviewer can. You can train with adversarial debiasing, where a second model tries to predict protected attributes from the scores and the main model is penalized whenever it succeeds. You can enforce demographic parity or equalized odds as hard constraints. You can run a Rooney rule style requirement that the shortlist meets diversity thresholds before any human sees it. Try doing that with a hiring manager's gut feeling. The gut feeling has no loss function. The model does, and we can write fairness into it. Banning the one hiring tool that can be mathematically forced to be fair, in order to protect the hiring process that never was, is backwards.

finally someone said the workers comp thing. my brother tore his meniscus junior year and the school basically ghosted him after eligibility ended

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The 'risk-free bet' language is what gets me. There is no such thing, and marketing it to teenagers during a game should embarrass everyone involved.

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And the mental-health screening precedent seals it. Twenty years ago 'screen every teen for depression' sounded vague and intrusive. Now it is just a checkup.

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