Bias

AI is more likely than humans to form biases when hiring

2026-07-20 · MIT Technology Review

Turns out AI doesn't just copy our hiring biases — it gets creative and invents its own. New research shows LLMs develop novel biases beyond what's in their training data when screening résumés. So now job applicants get to worry about being rejected by both human prejudice AND whatever weird preferences the algorithm cooked up on its own.

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