Computer says no: unpicking the employment risks of AI (via Passle)

Last week several newspapers ran a story about three make-up artists who had been'dismissed by algorithm' during a redundancy exercise. They sued their former employer and received an out of court settlement. Had Estee Lauder effectively outsourced its decision making to a machine to determine which employees to retain or dismiss? It had used AI (specifically facial recognition technology) to interview the women but, according to Estee Lauder, this only accounted for 1% of its decision making. The rest of the process was conducted by a human being.