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World Service,3 mins

Are recruitment algorithms biased?

Digital Planet

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Can fairness be automated? Not according to Dr Sandra Wachter from the Oxford Internet Institute, who argues some recruitment algorithms could be discriminatory because the data used to design them is biased. (Image: Red wooden human piece standing out from the other pieces, Credit: Getty Images.)

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