<![CDATA[When AI messes up your job prospects]]>AI does lots of good stuff. It also seems to mess up pretty regularly, and in ways that impact people negatively, in a big way.

He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

From Wired:
https://archive.is/pTMwz

]]>https://wtf.coffee-room.com/topic/3547/when-ai-messes-up-your-job-prospectsRSS for NodeSat, 09 May 2026 00:20:40 GMTFri, 08 May 2026 19:15:25 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to When AI messes up your job prospects on Fri, 08 May 2026 21:39:42 GMT]]>Well, HR departments have legal ways to effectively blacklist what would seemingly otherwise be excellent job prospects with the effect being many people can't even get called in for interview and have no way to tell themselves the reason why.

You don't need AI to mess up your job prospects, although I don't doubt it does it's fair share of damage.

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