Tracy Mumford

and Israel.

And finally, anyone who has applied for a job recently probably knows the feeling of hitting submit and wondering if AI is just going to filter your resume out before a human ever sees it.

Maybe you've even gotten a rejection 10 minutes after applying and wondered, wait, why?

How?

It can feel like a black box.

And a group of job seekers is now pushing back on that.

They filed a lawsuit against one particular screening company, which pulls together data from sources like LinkedIn.

The software then evaluates people's skills and scores each applicant on a scale of one to five.

The suit claims that's basically like a credit score.

And so, like credit scores, people have a right to know what it is.

Congress put the Fair Credit Reporting Act in place back in 1970 to make sure people could ask for their scores and dispute them if there were any errors.

The job seekers want the same thing, especially if AI is getting something wrong.

One plaintiff told The Times, I think I deserve to know what's being collected about me and shared with employers.

Those are the headlines.

I'm Tracy Mumford.

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