“Experts say AI hiring tools can demonstrate bias even if companies never instruct them to favor certain categories of people over others. These systems are often trained on the resumes or profiles of existing employees — but if a company’s existing workforce is largely male or white, the technology could inadvertently infer that the most successful candidates should share those characteristics.
Hilke Schellmann, author of the book “The Algorithm” about the use of AI in hiring, who is not involved in the Workday lawsuit, recounted a situation in which a different resume evaluation tool awarded more points to resumes with the word “baseball” over ones that listed “softball.”
The AI “wouldn’t understand, ‘wait a second, baseball has nothing to do with the job,’” she said.
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2025/05/22/tech/workday-ai-hiring-discrimination-lawsuit