The King's Shilling The Next Big (Data) Thing: Awaiting the Robo-Revolution

This post is to comment on the representation of emerging technology and its application to recruitment, and it's not my intention to speculate on a possible future of robots replacing humans, but there's an algorithmic future that's being neatly swept under the carpet by those who are "pro-robot". Research from Harvard University found that ads for arrest records were significantly more likely to show up on searches for distinctively black names or a historically black fraternity. Research from the University of Washington found that a Google Images search for "C.E.O." produced 11 percent women, even though 27 percent of United States chief executives are women. Google's AdWords system showed an ad for high-income jobs to men much more often than it showed the ad to women, a new study by Carnegie Mellon University researchers found. Those who advocate a perfect future will have to confront this research and much more like it.