Fighting bias in AI (and in hiring)

Lindsey Zuloaga joins us to discuss bias in hiring, bias in AI, and how we can fight bias in hiring with AI. Lindsey tells us about her experiences fighting bias at HireVue, where she is director of data science, and she gives some practical advice to AI practitioners about fairness in models and data.

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Featuring:

• Lindsey Zuloaga – Website, X
• Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Compas recidivism model
• HireVue
• IBM fairness 360
• Attacking discrimination with smarter machine learning

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