iTutorGroup's AI Hiring Bot Automatically Rejected Every Female Applicant Over 55 and Every Male Over 60 — EEOC Forced Them to Pay $365,000

In the first-ever EEOC settlement over AI-driven age discrimination (Aug 2023), tutoring company iTutorGroup was caught programming its recruitment AI to auto-reject women aged 55+ and men aged 60+. Over 200 qualified applicants were filtered out before any human saw their resumes. The smoking gun: one applicant resubmitted the same resume with a younger birth date and was immediately invited to interview. iTutorGroup paid $365k and was forced to re-offer jobs to all rejected candidates.

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iTutorGroup's AI Hiring Bot Automatically Rejected Every Female Applicant Over 55 and Every Male Over 60 — EEOC Forced Them to Pay $365,000

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In the first-ever EEOC settlement over AI-driven age discrimination (Aug 2023), tutoring company iTutorGroup was caught programming its recruitment AI to auto-reject women aged 55+ and men aged 60+. Over 200 qualified applicants were filtered out before any human saw their resumes. The smoking gun: one applicant resubmitted the same resume with a younger birth date and was immediately invited to interview. iTutorGroup paid $365k and was forced to re-offer jobs to all rejected candidates.

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