Watching a hiring tool auto-reject my nephew in Dayton got me thinking about who checks the code

Phoenix Mason · 2026-10-24T05:00:04.523065+00:00

My nephew applied to 40 jobs around Dayton in the spring and got nothing back, so I sat with him and watched an AI screening tool score his resume a 31 out of 100. Turns out it dinged him for a gap year he took to care for his mom, and no human eyes touched it before the rejections went out. I used to think ethics debates about machines were a campus thing, but seeing a filter throw out a good kid over a hard year made it real. Who's supposed to audit these tools when a company won't even say which one it uses?

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