Google's AI safety team tells job seekers: Skip our AI, talk to a human
Google DeepMind's internal safety team has advised job applicants to bypass the company's automated AI screening tools by using a special form to ensure a human reviews their resume. The report highlights internal skepticism regarding the fairness and efficacy of AI-driven hiring systems that Google markets to other businesses.
Why it matters
This reveals a significant irony in the tech industry where developers of AI tools express distrust in their own products for critical human-resource decisions.
Google DeepMind's own safety researchers do not trust the company's AI tools to screen job candidates fairly, even as Google sells those same tools to other businesses. According to a report by Bloomberg, the company’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team, a group that works to make advanced AI safer, is asking job applicants to fill out a special form. The form helps make sure a person, not a machine, reads their application. In its report, Bloomberg claimed to have viewed a document about this which allegedly carried the warning: "PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY.""We have an applications system with a non-trivial probability your CV will be screened out incorrectly or take too long to reach us," the document says.
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