Users of such tools claim that it eliminates gender and ethnic biases in hiring by utilizing algorithms that analyze job applicants through their speech patterns, expressions, and other aspects. However, researchers from Cambridge's Centre for Gender Studies contend that AI recruiting tools are superficial and equivalent to "automated pseudoscience" in a recent report published in Philosophy and Technology. The Cambridge team asserts that because AI is programmed to look for the employer's ideal applicant, it may eventually encourage uniformity rather than variety in the workforce when it is utilized to reduce candidate pools. "By claiming that racism, sexism, and other forms of discrimination can be stripped away from the hiring process using artificial intelligence, these companies reduce race and gender down to insignificant data points, rather than systems of power that shape how we move through the world," co-author Dr. Eleanor Drage said in a statement. The researchers noted many businesses now analyze candidate videos using AI, evaluating applicants for the "big five" personality traits: extroversion, openness, agreeableness, conscientiousness, and neuroticism.

In recent years, there has been an increase in the usage of AI tools that are advertised as a solution to the lack of diversity in the workforce. These tools range from chatbots and CV scrapers to aid companies in hiring employees. Users of such tools claim that it eliminates gender and ethnic biases in hiring by utilizing algorithms that analyze job applicants through their speech patterns, expressions, and other aspects. However, researchers from Cambridge's Centre for Gender Studies contend that AI recruiting tools are superficial and equivalent to "automated pseudoscience" in a recent report published in Philosophy and Technology. They claim it is a risky instance of "technosolutionism" - the use of technology to address complex issues like discrimination without making the necessary investments or alterations to organizational culture.

A team including CNRS astrophysicists have calculated the size and surface properties of the planet dubbed Proxima b, and concluded it may be an'ocean planet' similar to Earth. Scientists announced Proxima b's discovery in August, and said it may be the first exoplanet--planet outside our Solar System--to one day be visited by robots from Earth. A team including CNRS astrophysicists have calculated the size and surface properties of the planet dubbed Proxima b, and concluded it may be an'ocean planet' similar to Earth. It is estimated to have a mass about 1.3 times that of Earth, and orbits about 7.5 million kilometres (4.6 million miles) from its star--about a tenth the distance of innermost planet Mercury from the Sun. 'Contrary to what one might expect, such proximity does not necessarily mean that Proxima b's surface is too hot' for water to exist in liquid form, said a CNRS statement.