The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate Selection

…it seems that delegating hiring decisions to AI may also not be the solution either, as more unexpected outcomes emerge from the use of LLM’s at the hiring process. Interestingly, and perhaps counter intuitively, the research here suggests that LLM’s consistently show bias in favour of female candidates. We only thing we can be confident on is that we don’t know why. Another great read - H/T to brainfooder Petar Vujosevic for the share.