AI-based recruitment tools may not boost workplace diversity, study

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AI-based job recruitment tools may not boost workplace diversity, study argues
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AI-based job recruitment tools may not boost workplace diversity, study argues

Such tools are 'automated pseudoscience' according to researchers

A new study by the researchers at the University of Cambridge warns that artificial intelligence (AI)-based job recruitment tools may not increase diversity in hiring and could actually worsen bias...

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