Algorithms · January 2026Gaffe level: Blunder
AI company Eightfold sued for helping companies secretly score job seekers
Eightfold AI allegedly built secret 'talent profiles' on over a billion workers, grading quality of education, introversion, even future job titles, without telling a single applicant. The lawsuit doesn't claim the robot was biased, just that it was grading everyone in a locked room: your dream job got decided by an algorithm that never told you it existed.
Source: Reuters
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Source: Wired