If you’ve participated in a hiring process in recent years — either as a job candidate, as a hiring manger, or as an HR professional, it’s safe to assume that you can see where there’s room for improvement. Now that generative AI has entered the scene, is this the opportunity to make the hiring process more efficient and equitable? Or are we running the risk of further spreading systemic biases?

On this edition of Humans of AI, we speak with Hilke Schellmann, an Emmy Award-winning journalism professor and author of the book "The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired, and Why We Need to Fight Back Now." Hilke shares her unexpected journey into tech reporting and discusses the challenges and limitations of AI in the hiring process. She wants HR managers to be more cautious and intentional in their use of AI tools. She also wants vendors to be open about how their algorithms work. And she wants everyone involved in the hiring process, from job candidates to hiring managers to execs, to have more informed discussions about what it'll take to make hiring more efficient and fair.

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