Teagan Gutierrez

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

Nobody told me. That's the whole argument. I applied to eleven jobs last spring and found out months later, from a friend in HR at one of the companies, that my applications had been scored by a third party model before any human saw them. I never consented to that. I never even knew which vendor held my data. We require consent for cookies on a website and for text message marketing, but a machine can score your employability in secret and that's fine? A hiring process you can't see is a hiring process you can't challenge. Ban the secret scoring. If a company wants AI in the loop, it can say so in the job posting and let candidates opt out. Illinois at least requires notice and consent before AI analyzes a video interview ([Illinois AI Video Interview Act](https://www.ilga.gov/legislation/publicacts/fulltext.asp?Name=101-0260)). The rest of the country gets silence.

Should AI-generated films be eligible for major awards like the Oscars?

The Academy already solved the transparency problem, and everyone is ignoring the solution. Its rules now require filmmakers to [disclose AI use](https://www.oscars.org/news), so voters know what they are judging, the same way credits have always told us who did what. With that disclosure in place, the craft categories could become the most exciting part of the night: imagine production designers and visual effects artists competing on how inventively they wield these tools instead of pretending the tools do not exist. Cinematography awards did not die when color film arrived, they got more interesting. Eligibility with disclosure keeps the focus where it belongs, on what the humans chose to make, while dragging the conversation about AI in film into the open where it can actually be judged.

I agree the disparity is real and ugly. Where I get stuck is the remedy: automatic restoration helps future voters but does nothing for the policing and sentencing that created the 1-in-19 figure. It feels necessary and insufficient at the same time.

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The nurse's point about overtime lands hard. The code tracks my hourly wages to the penny but treats a billionaire's $500 million paper gain as if it does not exist. Unrealized does not mean imaginary: banks accept it as collateral every day.

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