A group of job applicants filed a lawsuit against AI-powered hiring platform Eightfold AI this month, arguing that certain AI-powered résumé screening capabilities and the candidate scoring tools violate consumer protections afforded to job applicants by federal and
state laws.The suit alleges that Eightfold’s AI résumé screening and candidate scoring tools “collect sensitive and often inaccurate information about unsuspecting job applicants and to score them from 0 to 5 for potential employers based on their
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