Business · Intermediate · about 16 minutes

Bias, fairness and the decisions AI must not influence

You use AI to help screen 300 CVs. Each summary looks fair and each shortlisting decision is defensible. Across 300, candidates from certain colleges, with certain names, or with employment gaps have been systematically ranked lower.

You need

Process: 300 CVs arrive for an accounts executive role. AI summarises each into a standard format.

Tool

AI extracting stated facts into a table

You get

1. WHERE AI IS INFLUENCING A DECISION — the summarisation step.

Time saved

The redesign is faster than reading 300 CVs, so the time saving is kept while the influence is removed.