BiasMedium
Three Make-Up Artists Lost Jobs Following Black-Box Automated Decision by HireVue
- Occurred
- Mar 17, 2022
- Published
- Mar 21, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Three make-up artists lost their positions following an algorithmically-assessed video interview by HireVue who reportedly failed to provide adequate explanation of the findings.
Developers
- HireVue
Deployers
- Estée Lauder
Harmed parties
- pseudonymous Estée Lauder's former staff
Classification
Category confidence: 85%
Severity confidence: 80%
Rationale: Algorithmic hiring tool caused job losses without explanation, indicating potential bias and transparency issues.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8