"Fighting Discrimination In The Age Of AI" Article Reflection No. 181 (5/2/2026)

Article: “Fighting Discrimination In The Age Of AI” 

Reflection:

In the Forbes article “Fighting Discrimination In The Age Of AI,” writer Douglas H. Wigdor discusses how AI’s influence on legislation and various sectors of society including the workplace. According to the article, large language models have shown discrimination against names associated with Black males as well as names associated with females when evaluating resumes. Along with this discrimination, there is also a lack of diversity that results in the workplace with additional obstacles such as the use of “automated interview tools” where interview components such as (e.g.) voice tone are assessed by AI. There is an increasing movement in response to these practices, as shown by (e.g.) the Working for Workers Four Act in Ontario, which encourages transparency in how artificial intelligence is being used in the (e.g.) workplace, according to Wigdor.

I never knew that AI has had this much of a significant reach in determining employment in today’s society. In my day-to-day life, I more often see what is immediately around me—for example, recently I have been hearing about how AI is being used as a personalized counselor for some students and how it is being used for research. But AI having such a large influence on employment? I think the connection that I’ve been associating AI and the workplace through has been the idea of how there are certain job sectors that are thought to be in danger of being replaced by AI. But AI influencing who receives an interview where historically marginalized groups’ names help indicate who will be at an advantage at receiving a job? I wonder where the roots of AI come from, and why this discrimination against marginalized groups is happening in the first place.