Incident 489: Workday's AI Tools Allegedly Enabled Employers to Discriminate against Applicants of Protected Groups
Description: Workday's algorithmic screening systems were alleged in a lawsuit allowing employers to discriminate against African-Americans, people over 40, and people with disabilities.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Workday developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Derek Mobley , applicants with disabilities , applicants over 40 and African American applicants.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
489
Report Count
1
Incident Date
2019-06-03
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
theregister.com · 2023
- View the original report at its source
- View the report at the Internet Archive
Workday stands accused of building algorithms that have resulted in bias against Black applicants in their 40s, according to a lawsuit.
Launched earlier this week in the Northern District Court of California, the case alleges that the HR an…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.
Similar Incidents
Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents
Similar Incidents
Did our AI mess up? Flag the unrelated incidents