Topic
discrimination
Technology Are AI recruitment tools affecting mid-life women's careers? BBC reporting says yes
BBC News spoke to more than 60 women aged 40 to 65 who say AI-powered recruitment tools may be blocking their return to work. Three named cases — Stacey Duguid, 52, Koeyli Jaluka, 49, and Anna Cowie, 52 — show senior candidates receiving automated rejections or silence despite decades of experience. Employers rarely disclose how AI tools screen candidates, leaving the extent of algorithmic bias unmeasurable.
New Benchmark 'AgentFairBench' Tests Whether LLM Agents Discriminate in Real Actions
Researchers introduce AgentFairBench, a reproducible benchmark for demographic disparity in LLM agent actions. Unlike traditional fairness tests that grade answers, it evaluates actions across hiring, lending, and medical triage using counterfactual matched sets. A pilot study with 864 decisions reveals that naively comparing score spreads can overstate disparity by ~2.4X; using a proper null methodology, Claude Haiku 4.5 showed no significant demographic effect.