Bias and Artificial Intelligence: Ghosts in the Machine -- Red Herring

With a gigantic bottleneck in tech talent, companies are turning to tech to speed up the recruitment process. But baked into hiring startups' algorithms are biases and prejudices as old as time – and it's unsure whether more AI is making things better or worse. Of the many revelations to come from The Inventor, HBO's blockbuster film about the rise and fall of medtech startup Theranos, one of the more personal is how founder Elizabeth Holmes artificially lowered her voice to a baritone, slipping out of character every now and then; giving the game away. While many found the detail funny, others understood exactly why Holmes did it. Holmes was mimicking a man.