Just when we thought it was safe to go back in the water, a new threat has emerged to equal employment opportunity as employers base hiring decisions on artificial intelligence powered video and game-based “pre-employment” assessments of job candidates.

BAME couriers working for Uber Eats and Uber claim that the company’s flawed identification technology is costing them their livelihoods

The use of artificial intelligence (AI) presents risks to equality, potentially embedding bias and discrimination. Auditing tools are often promised as a solution. However our new research, which examines tools for auditing AI used in recruitment, finds these tools are often inadequate in ensuring compliance with UK Equality Law, good governance and best practice. We argue in this report that a more comprehensive approach than technical auditing is needed to safeguard equality in the use of AI for hiring, which shapes access to work. Here, we present first steps which could be taken to achieve this. We also publish a prototype AI Equality Impact Assessment which we plan to develop and pilot.

A growing group of lawyers are uncovering, navigating, and fighting the automated systems that deny the poor housing, jobs, and basic services. Increasingly, the fight over a client’s eligibility now involves some kind of algorithm. “In some cases, it probably should just be shut down because there’s no way to make it equitable,”

This is what California just voted to protect. multibillion dollar tech companies legally paying people $2.50 per hour. no benefits, no union, and no power make their own decisions about the work they do like actual independent contractors. You legalized violating Labor law. https://t.co/7iD1Z1RMbY— (@BethLynch2020) February 19, 2021

On the questionable use of Artificial Intelligence for job applications. An exclusive data analysis by BR (Bavarian Broadcasting) data journalists shows that an AI for personality assessment can be swayed by appearances. This might perpetuate stereotypes while potentially costing candidates the job.

This year, in honor of Black History Month, the Codecademy Team is celebrating Black leaders that are working to build a more inclusive, more welcoming, and more diverse tech industry. It's important to celebrate Black people in all our roles and diversity. For UK Black History Month (BHM), we're keen to see similar profiling of technologists who want to raise their visibility, so we can celebrate their work.

Government considers shelving service again as figures suggest evidence of growing inequality. “The excuse is likely to be that businesses are badly hit right now but actually, it is employees, especially women and minorities, who have been badly hit.”

A growing number of firms are using artificial intelligence to pass or fail jobseekers.

The ability to get and keep a job is a key aspect of participating in society and sustaining livelihoods. Yet the way decisions are made on who is eligible for jobs, and why, are rapidly changing...

Black people are experts in their lived experience of racism.That does not automatically mean Black people are experts in Diversity and Inclusion (D&I) or Anti-Racism. § Having a corridor chat with a random member of staff who happens to be Black to pick their brains about D&I and Anti-Racism policy is not strategic. It's tokenism. And tokenism is a byproduct of racism.