Google DeepMind's Own Safety Experts Quietly Sidestep the Company's AI Resume Screeners
The team said its application system can wrongly screen out CVs and urged candidates to use a form for human review.
- Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team is advising job applicants to complete a special form to bypass internal automated screening, warning there is a "non-trivial probability" the company's application system might incorrectly filter out candidates.
- Alphabet's Google markets AI tools to corporate clients, promising to "save HR time by quickly creating drafts for job postings, evaluating resumes, and forecasting hiring needs," yet some of the company's own AI researchers prefer to avoid relying on these automated systems.
- Filling out this form ensures a real human reviews the application, as the team noted that human reviewers grow tired of LLM-generated answers because "they all sound very samey," preventing qualified candidates from being discarded.
- A Google DeepMind spokesperson denied that the company's systems filter applicants incorrectly, asserting the goal is to "recruit and hire the most qualified talent at Google DeepMind," and stated there are "no shortcuts to getting hired."
- Automated hiring systems face increasing scrutiny as Workday Inc defends a lawsuit alleging its AI discriminates based on protected traits, while Bloomberg reports suggest ChatGPT showed potential bias in recruitment.
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Google DeepMind's Own Safety Experts Quietly Sidestep the Company's AI Resume Screeners
Google DeepMind’s AGI Safety and Alignment Team faces a peculiar internal bind. Its researchers, tasked with mitigating risks from advanced AI, now steer job candidates around the company’s own automated hiring filters. A memo viewed by Bloomberg reveals the workaround. Applicants receive instructions to submit an extra form. This ensures a human sees their materials. The document carries a blunt warning. “PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY.” I…
Internal Google Document Reveals That Its HR AI Has Been Throwing Résumés From Qualified Applicants Straight Into the Trash
Bad news for anyone seeking a job in this AI-infested hiring hellscape: not even Google’s top AI lab can figure it out. That’s according to an HR memo viewed by Bloomberg, encouraging job-seekers to fill out a special AI-proof form on top of their standard application so that a “real human” will know they applied. The document, which contains the delicious disclaimer “PLEASE DO NOT SHARE THIS DOC WIDELY,” is ironically the product of Google Deep…
Planning to Apply at Google? Its AI Hiring System May Reject Your Resume, Here's Why
According to a Bloomberg report, candidates applying for positions with Google DeepMind's AGI Safety and Alignment Team are being instructed to complete an additional application form. The team, which focuses on improving the safety of advanced AI systems, says the extra step is part of its hiring process for open roles. Google is among the companies that rely on artificial intelligence to streamline recruitment, but reports suggest one of its o…
Google’s AI team hesitates to use its own HR filter
Alphabet Inc’s Google pitches its artificial intelligence (AI) tools to corporate clients as a way to more quickly sift through a mountain of job applications to find the most promising candidates — but some of its own AI researchers do not want to rely on these tools when recruiting.Google DeepMind
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