NPR.

This is the indicator from Planet Money, I'm Whalen Wong.

And I'm Darien Woods.

If you've been on the job market over the last few years and filled out an online application,

you might have been judged by some kind of artificial intelligence.

The resume could have been filtered through an automated system before a human hiring

manager even looked at it.

Or maybe you made it to the interview stage, and instead of having a phone conversation

or Zoom call with another person, you had to use a video platform and record yourself

answering questions.

Yeah, like just speaking into the void, hoping that somebody guessed the message.

Hello, can I have a job?

Hello?

Please.

This kind of technology is supposed to help businesses with hiring make the process

more efficient or help employers make better decisions.

But it's also come under scrutiny for making the hiring process more unfair when it comes

to some candidates.

Starting in July, New York City will start enforcing a law that says that employers won't

be able to use automated tools in hiring and promotion decisions unless that technology

has been audited for bias.

But what does that mean?

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