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When Algorithms Fire Humans

Jan 5, 2022 Tiran Bajgiran

Poor selfies, rainy days, and locked gates – all are reported triggers for the auto-firing of delivery personnel by Amazon’s Flex app, and all follow events beyond the workers’ control. Meanwhile, no appeal to humans is available on the platform, nor any negotiation with the opaque algorithm calculating whether gig drivers have outlived their usefulness […]

Litigation Can Help Curb Algorithmic Discrimination in Hiring, Here’s How

Apr 7, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

As described in my last post, employers who use algorithmic decision systems (ADSs) in hiring reify past prejudices and systemic discrimination while coating the process in a veneer of objectivity. More troubling, mathematician and social activist Cathy O’Neil predicts these systems will disparately impact already marginalized communities, writing, “the privileged” will be “processed more by […]

What’s the Deal with Algorithmic Discrimination?

Mar 10, 2021 Hannah Hilligoss

It’s no secret that the hiring process is rife with bias and discrimination. Hiring personnel are only human, after all, and their personal biases lead to both unintentional and intentional discrimination. But what if hiring personnel weren’t human? What if we could replace them with objective, data-driven algorithmic assessments? No more bias! Or at least […]

April 5, 2019
News & Commentary

Alisha Jarwala

ICE conducted its largest workplace raid in over a decade this week, arresting over 280 employees of CVE Technology Group in a suburb of Dallas, Texas. The arrested individuals are predominantly women from countries including El Salvador, Honduras, Mexico, Nigeria and Venezuela. Families were left waiting for several hours for their loved ones to be […]

October 19, 2018
News & Commentary

Ryan Wheeler

Amazon’s discriminatory hiring algorithm is not alone, Cathy O’Neill writes. Rather, many companies use algorithms for hiring and human resources tasks and intentionally seek to maintain plausible deniability about whether the algorithm perpetuates discrimination. For those who haven’t heard, Amazon recently pulled its hiring algorithm because the company learned that the algorithm was discriminated against […]

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When Algorithms Fire Humans

Litigation Can Help Curb Algorithmic Discrimination in Hiring, Here’s How

What’s the Deal with Algorithmic Discrimination?

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