My wife says that any time someone proposes doing anything with an ML model, you should replace “AI” in the proposal with “trained weasels” and if it still sounds like a good idea you can go ahead with it.
“We trained weasels to count how many customers came into the store” - reasonable; unproblematic; probably a thing you could do.
“We trained weasels to screen resumes of people applying to jobs” - probably a bad idea, especially if the weasels are racist or sexist (the weasels are both racist and sexist).
“We trained weasels to drive a two-ton vehicle on busy city streets” - terrible idea; someone is almost certainly going to die.
@tess
Given how badly HR people generally do at ranking resumes, I suspect a weasel that does it randomly or by whether the resume smells like sardines, would actually be a big improvement.
What I most want out of AI regarding resumes, is to make the existing bias easier to see, or failing that, do the job of HR with the same level of bias, but a lot cheaper and faster
