Protocol: The (possibly dystopian) rise of the automated video interview

The FTC has warned companies against using algorithms that could be unfair or create adverse outcomes, according to Sara Geoghegan, a law fellow at the Electronic Privacy Information Center. In 2019, EPIC filed a complaint with the FTC alleging that HireVue was engaging in unfair and deceptive practices that violated AI standards by using facial recognition AI tools in its video-interview analysis. […]

For the systems’ critics, it’s difficult to actually prove why someone has been filtered out of the system. “What’s particularly tricky about this — it’s really hard to find people who have experienced an adverse outcome because of these systems, because you don’t know. If I do a little 90-second or 60-second video of myself, and I say, ‘Hi, I’m a lawyer and I do tech stuff,’ I won’t know if I don’t get a job if it’s because I wasn’t qualified or if it’s because a system made a call in a matter of seconds, and now I’m subject to that system,” Geoghegan said.

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