Is AI a Threat to Diversity, Inclusion, Accessibility?

AI can mask for race, gender, age, disability and other characteristics. It can mask for proxy terms that might indicate somebody's in a protected class such as sports teams or somebody's graduation date. And it really, in a way can remove some of that bias from the earliest stages of the hiring process. So you go in for an interview whether in person before the pandemic or now on Zoom. What do you see? In person and immediately what do you find out about the person? Their potential age, their sex, their race, if they're disabled,. if they're pregnant, all these decisions you as employers are not the EOC and federal law has says you are not allowed