The California Dental Association is teaching people how to use AI in hiring. They call it implementing best practices. It is actually just a guide for automating the rejection of human beings.

The industry claims they want to avoid algorithmic bias. This is a lie. They are just trying to find ways to make discrimination harder to trace. You cannot argue with a mathematical error.

The human element of recruitment is dying. We are being reduced to data points in a black box. The software decides your value before you ever speak to another person. The decay is visible in several ways.

• The replacement of human judgment with math.
• The masking of prejudice through code.
• The total loss of accountability in the hiring process.