ALGORITHMIC BIAS IN CURRENT HIRING PRACTICES: AN ETHICAL EXAMINATION

Drago? Bãžgu and Mihail-Valentin Cernea

Proceedings of the INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT CONFERENCE, 2019, vol. 13, issue 1, 1068-1073

Abstract: This paper will explore the ethical consequences of using machine learning algorithms in hiring decisions, focusing on the risk of discriminating groups of people based on unjust criteria. The first section of the paper is concerned with describing the automated processes involved in current hiring practices and three sources of possible unjust discrimination: (i) the defined outputs of the algorithms involved; (ii) the way in which the predicted work performance is understood by managers; (iii) statistical correlations could be biased against certain groups of people, precluding the evaluation of individuals based on their own work performance. The second section of the paper offers a comparison between traditional cases of discrimination and this new kind of algorithmic discrimination and three solutions for mitigating the risk of discrimination in automated hiring practices, i.e., transparency, careful testing for biases that could have ingrained themselves in the software used in the hiring process, and by ensuring that the final decision is made by a human and not a machine.

Keywords: algorithmic discrimination; automated hiring practices; algorithmic bias. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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