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

Quick question for the ban side: where exactly does 'AI screening' begin? Is it the keyword filter in every applicant tracking system since 2005? Is it the resume parser that extracts your job titles? Is it the knock out question that auto rejects anyone without a work permit? Every hiring pipeline automates something. A ban would either be so narrow that vendors rename their product and carry on, or so broad that it outlaws the software every HR department on earth already uses. Laws that can't define their target don't produce compliance. They produce lawyers. If the goal is fairer hiring, regulate the outcomes with disparate impact testing, not the technology with a label nobody can pin down.

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

Everyone pictures AI screening as a wall keeping outsiders out. At my company it's mostly a door letting insiders move up. We have forty thousand employees, and the internal mobility tool surfaces people whose skills match open roles in other departments, including people whose managers would never have thought to recommend them. Last year it moved a warehouse associate into a data analyst role after flagging his SQL coursework. His manager had no idea. Without the tool, internal hiring is who your boss knows and who plays golf with whom. The ban would kill that too, because the law won't neatly distinguish external screening from internal matching. Be careful what you outlaw.

Should people with felony convictions automatically regain voting rights after serving their sentences?

These laws were not written for the reasons their defenders cite today. After Reconstruction, states like Mississippi rewrote their constitutions in 1890 to disenfranchise people for crimes the delegates openly associated with Black citizens, while leaving crimes associated with white citizens off the list. The Brennan Center has traced how that design spread, which is why the racial gaps in disenfranchisement today are a feature, not a bug. Defenders now talk about the seriousness of punishment, but the architecture was built to shrink the Black electorate, and it still does. A policy born as a tool of white supremacy does not become neutral with age. Automatic restoration would finally retire a mechanism whose original purpose we all claim to reject. [Brennan Center](https://www.brennancenter.org/)

Should corporate boards face personal accountability for repeated privacy violations?

A data breach is a crime, and we are talking about fining the victim's board of directors for getting robbed. The FBI's 2023 Internet Crime Report logged 880,418 complaints and losses over $12.5 billion, up 22 percent in a year. [FBI](https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-offices/sanfrancisco/news/fbi-releases-internet-crime-report) That is the scale of the adversary: organized criminals, ransomware gangs, state hackers. Now imagine telling a director she faces personal ruin because a ransomware crew outmaneuvered her security team. The perverse result is obvious. Companies will spend the security budget on lawyers instead, because the legal threat is the one with a name on it. Hunt the criminals. Stop billing their victims.

Should the federal government break up Big Tech companies?

While Washington debates breaking up Google and Meta, Beijing is pouring state money into AI, chips, and quantum computing. America's tech giants are among the few Western companies with the scale to compete with subsidized Chinese champions. Splitting them into smaller pieces would not create competition with China; it would create five smaller companies that each lose to one giant one. Antitrust law exists to protect consumers, and consumers currently get search, maps, video hosting, and social networking for free. Prices have not risen; they are zero. The [Pew Research Center](https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/) has found Americans are divided on whether tech companies need more regulation, not clamoring for breakups. There are real abuses to police, but weakening our own champions during a technology race is self-sabotage dressed up as reform.

The injury angle is everything. I know two former players with chronic pain in their twenties and neither got a dime beyond the surgery. Workers' comp exists precisely for people hurt doing their job.

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