Artificial intelligence has been adopted by a quarter of businesses in the United States, according to the 2022 IBM Global AI Adoption Index. Many are beginning to use it in the hiring process. State laws have been poor at keeping up. Only Illinois, Maryland and New York City require employers to ask for consent first if using AI during certain parts of the hiring process. A handful of states are considering similar legislation.
A solution? One way to avoid issues with AI in the hiring process is to maintain human involvement, from product design to regular monitoring of automated decisions. In situations where machine learning or data collection is used free of human input, the machine is at risk of being biased toward certain groups.
