Are AI-powered hiring systems legally compliant and morally justified?

In an episode of the High Volume Hiring Podcast that Cohosts Steven Rothberg of College Recruiter and Jeanette Leeds will long remember, we’re joined by Hilke Schellman, Professor of Journalism at New York University and author of The Algorithm: How AI Decides Who Gets Hired, Monitored, Promoted, and Fired and Why We Need to Fight Back Now.

Hilke’s book, which reads like a novel, makes the case that technology in the world of hiring is often a very good thing, including some of the new uses of artificial intelligence. But that doesn’t mean that all products are well-designed. Some are based on nothing more than pseudoscience, despite the claims from the vendors saying otherwise.

As a buyer of HR tech, what questions should you be asking? What risks do you face if you don’t?