Publish at March 09 2020 Updated October 20 2021
Human beings have a predisposition to judge their fellow man. Consequently, one might think that professional or academic recruitment should rely on artificial intelligences. After all, they should not have the cognitive biases that we have. But this is not always true, as experiments and studies show that they learn from our discriminatory actions.
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