Webinar flags hiring algorithms as a litigation risk, citing Amazon example
Gadeau described hiring‑automation pitfalls and cited Amazon's resumed experiment that favored male resumes; he said multiple lawsuits touch AI companies for hallucinations and other harms and cautioned listeners about legal exposure.
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Gadeau used an Amazon recruiting example to show how training on an employer's historic resumes can institutionalize bias. "Whenever an application came in in a resume from a woman, it compared it to all the resumes for men and was like, oh, no," he said, summarizing why the experiment was abandoned.
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