https://msucerl.org/cmse101/tags/hiring/Recent content in Hiring on AI and Society CourseHugoen-usThu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://msucerl.org/cmse101/use-cases/6-1-ai-resume-screening-hiring/Thu, 21 May 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://msucerl.org/cmse101/use-cases/6-1-ai-resume-screening-hiring/<h1 id="ai-resume-screening--hiring-discriminators">AI Resume Screening &amp; Hiring Discriminators</h1> <h2 id="context--systems-architecture">Context &amp; Systems Architecture</h2> <p>Automated hiring and talent acquisition tools are widely used by corporate Human Resources departments to filter through thousands of applicant resumes. Between 2014 and 2017, Amazon developed a proprietary, secret AI recruiting engine designed to automatically rank job applicants and identify top talent. The project was ultimately abandoned after internal engineers discovered that the machine learning pipeline had developed a systematic, algorithmic hostility toward female candidates, uncovering the core vulnerability of training models on historical human decision-making data.</p>