Claims AI can boost workplace diversity are ‘spurious and dangerous’
I will never forget.  Some startup claimed they could find the best candidates for the job using &quot;AI.&quot;  They had a whole bunch of BS selling points.  I think they even convinced a fair amount of companies to get on board too.  I was thinking &quot;how can people be so stupid!?&quot;<p>I then found one of the &quot;features&quot; was that they have the managers&#x2F;bosses take the exam.  They then offer a package that can weigh candidates based on correlation to their boss.  Well, that&#x27;s what it did.  The marketing pitch was something something, view if they&#x27;re compatible with your culture, something something.<p>I then realized its genius.  Charge a ton of money to do basic linear regression and spend 90% of your money on giving your clients an excuse to hire whoever they want without appearing bias.  They would even appear &quot;virtuous&quot; because they let the &quot;AI decide.&quot;<p>Just awful, lol.<p>Of course, I never got to see the internals and I don&#x27;t want to slander but the &quot;test the boss, correlate with new hire&quot; was 100% real.