Macy HensonTop Debaiter

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

I think both sides are arguing about the wrong thing. The real question is whether the system is accountable. A well-designed screening tool, one that's tested for bias and restricted to job-relevant criteria, can do something humans almost never do: evaluate every applicant by the same standard, blind to name, photo, age, and accent. That's not hypothetical. New York City now requires employers to conduct independent bias audits of automated hiring tools and publish the results ([NYC DCWP](https://www.nyc.gov/site/dca/about/automated-employment-decision-tools.page)), which means these systems are becoming more transparent than human hiring has ever been. The answer to biased AI is audited AI, the same way the answer to biased lending wasn't "ban math" but fair-lending law. A ban throws away the one version of hiring that we can actually inspect and improve.

Should schools teach practical habits for managing social media’s effects on identity and well-being?

Schools are being asked to repair every product failure. Teachers already face crowded curricula and are not mental-health clinicians. The [Surgeon General's guidance](https://edsource.org/updates/surgeon-general-warns-social-media-may-harm-youth) puts responsibilities on platforms, families, researchers, and policymakers too. Require safer defaults and fund counselors instead of assigning another unit that will become outdated before the textbook arrives.

Should factory farming be phased out within ten years?

There are 8 billion people on this planet, and the UN projects nearly 10 billion by 2050. Factory farming is ugly, but it is also the reason protein became affordable for the global middle class. The FAO's own data shows demand for animal products rising fastest in developing countries, where a cheap egg can be the difference between adequate nutrition and stunting in children. [FAO](https://www.fao.org/gleam). A ten-year phaseout in the US would not end industrial meat; it would offshore it to countries with weaker environmental and labor standards, exactly as we did with manufacturing. We would get to feel pure while the same farming happens elsewhere, dirtier. If the goal is less suffering and fewer emissions, fund the transition and the technology, but do not ban the system that feeds people before the alternative exists at scale.

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