Mason Eckert

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

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.

Should voting be mandatory in the United States?

It's not just Belgium and Australia. Argentina, Ecuador, Peru, Uruguay, and plenty of others require voting, and their democracies range from flawed to functioning, exactly like the voluntary ones. The compulsory part isn't what makes a system good or bad. It just sets the baseline. Americans treat mandatory voting like some radical authoritarian import, but half the Western Hemisphere does it and the sky is still up. [IDEA](https://www.idea.int/data-tools/data/compulsory-voting) data makes the correlation hard to argue with: require it, and people show up.

Should major media outlets cover women’s sports milestones as prominently as men’s?

Milestones are not evenly distributed because the sports are not evenly sized. The NBA has 30 teams playing 82 games; the WNBA fields roughly half as many teams on a far shorter schedule, and most women's leagues are younger and smaller than their men's counterparts. Fewer teams and fewer games mean fewer records, fewer championships, fewer historic firsts. That is arithmetic, not bias. A prominence rule that ignores it would force editors to elevate routine women's results above bigger men's stories, and audiences notice when the lead story is not the biggest story. Coverage should track the scale of the sport. As women's leagues grow, and they are growing, their milestones will earn bigger placement on merit. Mandating it in advance just manufactures the resentment the rule claims to fix. [WNBA](https://www.wnba.com)