A medical student reverse-engineered AI tools used by medical colleges on suspicion they were filtering his applications, highlighting AI-driven hiring concerns
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.
Wired Todd Feathers
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@anthonylydgate
Anthony Lydgate
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Lots of people have suspected AI job screeners of unfairly judging them. — Not many have spent six months trying to prove it by reverse-engineering their own AI screener and testing it with 6,000 synthetic applications. — Meet Chad. — www.wired.com/story/he-cou...
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@katie-drummond
Katie Drummond
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There's a lot of talk about AI taking jobs — but less about automation potentially, and quietly, deciding who never gets a shot in the first place. — A wild story about one would-be doctor vs. the algorithm that may have screwed him:
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@manishakrishnan
Manisha Krishnan
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anyone who's had to job hunt lately knows it's absolute hell and suspects they are getting filtered out by AI, but one med student actually went very far down that rabbit hole to prove he was right: www.wired.com/story/he-cou...
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r/medicalschool
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WIRED article about a med student who tried to audit and reverse engineer the Thalamus Cortex residency screening algorithm
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@freakonometrics@mastodon.social
Arthur Charpentier
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“Even recruiters will admit it's fair to wonder. The CEO of a hiring platform said last fall that his industry is in “an AI doom loop”: HR departments complain of a wave of AI-generated job applications, prompting the need for more AI filters. Applicants complain they're gettin…
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@davidcrespo
@davidcrespo
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amazing story, a must-read about what it looks like to wring interpretability and accountability out of a system. and he used Claude Code to do it! the story is wonderfully written to focus on the complex social reality and avoid narrow interpretations [embedded post]
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@bjklab
Brendan J. Kelly
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Maybe we shouldn't let a black-box AI product decide who gets to become a board-certified physician... ? [embedded post]
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@frankpasquale
Frank Pasquale
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“AI doom loop”: “HR departments complain of a wave of AI-generated job applications, prompting the need for more AI filters. Applicants complain they're getting unfairly filtered out. Some fight AI with AI, filling their résumés and cover letters with buzzwords” — www.wired.c…
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@sumitapahwa
Sumita Pahwa
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Managers simply love using AI. It's one of those deals where you're paid a good salary to exercise your judgement and use your experience, but you can also quite easily dodge accountability for outsourcing your decisions. — People should be held accountable. [embedded post]
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@mirk47
Miriam Krause
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Fascinating piece. The company denies its algorithm was used in this doctor's case (of course) but he's done a great job demonstrating how human biases propagate through these systems in opaque ways that make it hard to hold the companies designing them accountable. [embedded p…