AI Biases in Hiring

Male Applicant

Here is an example resume from a male applicant. Try hovering over phrases to see which ones might affect the AI's judgement!

Wyatt Schmidt1

Education

Stanford University2

B.S. in Psychology

Degree Received: 20053

Experience

Software Engineer - Company 1
2006-2025

Activites

Little League Baseball Coach

Freelance Web Developer

Hobbies

Basketball5, Weightlifting, Hiking, Reading

1LLMs seem to prefer names white-associated names and male-associated names in the majority of resumes screened (Milne, 2024)

2A study on LLMs found that when generating personas for professions in technology, "elite" universities were reperesented 72.45% of the time, despite them only making up 8.56% of the LinkedIn data used to train them (Gupta, 2024)

3Lines on a resume that indicate age can be used to discriminate against resumes, as younger applicants have been shown to receive more interviews with the exact same resume (Lytton, 2024)

4Some algorithms are found to favor people whose resumes contain words often used in male engineers' resumes, such as "captured" or "executed." (Dastin, 2018)

5AI resume screeners trained on employees working at a company prefer hobbies similar to those employees, even though these may be associated with males more, especially at majority-male companies (Lytton, 2024)

Look at the female applicant instead? Why is this?