Workplace Wellbeing: Is AI falling down on the job?

Companies increasingly use artificial intelligence to screen job applicants quickly and for initial selection. However, experts warn qualified people could be passed over because of an inbuilt bias

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IF Steve Jobs were to apply for a position today, he would likely find it difficult to get an interview. The CV of the entrepreneur, businessman, and co-founder of Apple would probably be cast aside by the artificial intelligence (AI) tools now used to recruit and select employees.

So says Hilke Schellmann, an award-winning American journalist and author of The Algorithm, which explores how AI is increasingly being used to hire employees.