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A study published earlier this month by independent researchers Adam Karvonen and Samuel Marks shows that the “leading commercial … and open-source [AI language] models” used by major companies insert “significant racial and gender biases” in the hiring process. The research found that AI language models such as Chat GPT-4o, Claude 4 Sonnet, Gemini 2.5 Flash, along with open-source models Gemma-2 27B, Gemma-3, and Mistral-24B, “consistently favor Black over White candidates and female over male candidates across all tested models and scenarios.”
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“Our work shows that standard resume anonymization may not be a complete solution,” Karvonen said. “For example, we found that models would infer a candidate’s race from their college affiliation and become biased as a result. Even if you remove obvious identifiers like names, bias can still creep in through other background details. This is another reason why a technical fix like ours, which prevents the model from processing these concepts at all, can be more robust than simply hiding surface-level information.”
The study found that asking AI models to consider “real-world contextual details” and to focus on “a highly selective hiring process” can cause the AI to become biased and discriminate against white people, especially white men, who received “up to 12% differences in interview rates.”
“Even if everything else is the same — the resume is the same, the experience is the same — stereotypically white names are less likely to pass through the interview process,” Jason Hausenloy, an independent AI safety researcher, told The Daily Wire.
Hausenloy added that the AI language models favored minority job candidates, even if a company’s diversity pledges and statements were completely removed from the scenario.
“Just the very act of making the hiring scenarios more realistic meant that they are more likely to be biased,” he said.
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It’s not just a few mega corporations using AI to weed out job candidates. A study published by Resume Builder last October found that half of all companies are already using AI in the hiring process and predicts that this will increase to 70% by the end of 2025. The study surveyed 948 business leaders who work at a company with more than 21 employees.
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