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"The problem [is] no-one knows exactly where the harm is," she explains. And, given that companies have saved money by replacing human HR staff with AI – which can process piles of resumes in a fraction of the time – she believes firms may have little motivation to interrogate kinks in the machine. 

"One biased human hiring manager can harm a lot of people in a year, and that's not great. But an algorithm that is maybe used in all incoming applications at a large company… that could harm hundreds of thousands of applicants" – Hilke Schellman

From her research, Schellmann is also concerned screening-software companies are "rushing" underdeveloped, even flawed products to market to cash in on demand. "Vendors are not going to come out publicly and say our tool didn't work, or it was harmful to people", and companies who have used them remain "afraid that there's going to be a gigantic class action lawsuit against them".