Garbage headline. This isn't "AI" doing this, it's hiring managers and companies. It's policy. If I put all my applicants into a Microsoft excel spreadsheet and use the sorting function to sort by race, then only hire ones of of a particular skin tone, is Excel keeping millions of qualified candidates out of the workforce? No, of course not. Neither is AI. Replace "AI" with "company policy" in every one of these articles and you get at what's actually occurring.

Same reason we don't need to "regulate AI". We need to regulate it's deployment, just like we regulate whatever technology we used for it previously. In other words, we don't need new rules, we just need enforcement of existing ones. You can't have a hiring process that discriminatory. What tool you use to arrive at that end doesn't matter.

This is the best summary I could come up with:

According to Manjari Raman - one of the researchers behind that study and the Senior Program Director Managing for the Future of Work Project at Harvard Business School -  companies turn to these automated systems because they are sometimes flooded with applications.

The AI was trained on the company’s previous hiring track record, and since men dominate the tech industry, it decided that male candidates were preferable to female ones.

That same year, auditors of another screening tool found that the software ranked people with the name Jared and a history of playing lacrosse in high school more favourably than other applicants.

But they were ranked as a low candidate because the job asked for international experience, and the ATS screener thought the journalist didn’t meet this requirement despite them previously having worked in five different countries.

European Union officials are working on groundbreaking rules to regulate AI that could become the de facto standard for global countries because of the size of the 27 nation bloc and its market.

China is also drafting regulations requiring security assessments for any products using AI, while the UK's competition watchdog has opened a review of the market.

I'm a bot and I'm open source!

How depressing. Makes me wonder if that's part of the reason I'm struggling to switch careers, because though I'm well qualified for my desired role - I don't fit the stereotypical career history.

I have never once gotten a job from applying directly. It seems like applying directly just immediately deleted your application. I've always gotten my jobs from referrals or a recruiter reaching out