Automating Discrimination: AI Hiring Practices and Gender Inequality
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AUTOMATING DISCRIMINATION: Al HIRING
PRACTICES AND GENDER INEQUALITY
Lori Andrews & Hannah Buchert
I think people underestimate the impact algorithms and recommendation
engines have on jobs, Derek Kan, Vice President of Product Management at Monster
says.l The way you present yourself is most likely read by thousands of machines and
servers first, before it even gets to a human eye.2
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION ................................................................................................................147
I. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING IN HIRING DECISIONS ....152
II. THE LAW OF EMPLOYMENT DISCRIMINATION UNDER TITLE VII .......................156
A . D isparate Treatm ent .......................................................................... 158
B . D isparate Im pact ................................................................................ 162
III. APPLICATION OF TITLE VII TO AI TECHNOLOGIES IN HIRING ............................168
A. Resume Scanning................................................................................ 168
1. The Technological Underpinnings of Resume-Scanning, Its
Current Uses, and Its Gendered Impacts................................. 168
2. The Potential Role of Existing Law in Response to Gender
Discrimination in Resume Scanning ....................................... 171
t Lori Andrews, J.D., Professor of Law, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Director, Institute for
Science, Law, and Technology, Illinois Institute of Technology and Hannah Bucher, J.D., Chicago-
Kent College of Law. The authors wish to thank Adrienne Finucane, Bora Ndregjoni, Kelby Roth,
and Andrew White for their research, editorial insights, creativity, and inspiration in connection
with this Article. They are also grateful for the insights of Anita Bernstein, Richard Gonzalez, Ruth
Kaufman, Ellen Mitchell, Clements Ripley, and Jim Stark.
1 Sheridan Wall & Hilke Schellmann, LinkedIn's Job-Matching AI Was Biased. The Company's
Solution? More AL., MIT TECH. REv. (June 25, 2021), https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/06/
23/1026825/linkedin-ai-bias-ziprecruiter-monster-artificial-intelligence [https://perma.cc/45R2-
LMJJ].
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