Study Finds AI Resume Screeners Show Bias Against Mothers With Employment Gaps
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Recent study found AI resume screening systems used by major companies exhibit bias against women with maternity leave gaps.
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Models like ChatGPT and Google's Bard rejected resumes with maternity gaps, calling them a "liability".
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Lead researcher expressed concern over "alarming" hiring bias trends against mothers with young children.
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Study analyzed AI-generated resume summaries from dataset of 2,484 resumes with sensitive attributes randomly introduced.
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Findings highlight need to address biases in AI hiring tools that may filter out qualified candidates based on parenting.