{"id":44846,"date":"2026-02-10T11:17:46","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T05:47:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/?post_type=video&#038;p=44846"},"modified":"2026-02-03T18:18:29","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:48:29","slug":"are-ai-screening-tools-biased","status":"publish","type":"video","link":"https:\/\/www.editage.com\/insights\/are-ai-screening-tools-biased","title":{"rendered":"Are AI Screening Tools Biased?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Artificial intelligence (AI) drives various\u00a0aspects of a research\u00a0workflow, and\u00a0understating how AI tools work has become crucial. As authors, it is natural to be concerned\u00a0about AI screening tools, especially with many journals using them to filter\u00a0out submissions. AI bias does occur,\u00a0but how does it happen? And what can be done to minimize it?<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Watch this video\u00a0where\u00a0<\/span><b><span data-contrast=\"none\">James\u00a0Sonne<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"none\">\u00a0(Anatomy &amp; Neurobiology, Ph.D. Integrated Biomedical Sciences)\u00a0dives\u00a0into a real-life case that perfectly shows how bias in data can lead to biased AI outputs.\u00a0He takes you through\u00a0a fascinating example from Amazon\u2019s AI journey. Between 2014 and 2015, Amazon built an AI recruiting tool to help speed up hiring and\u00a0identify\u00a0top-performing job candidates, especially in software development roles. But there was one major problem: The AI learned biases hidden inside the historical data it was trained on.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Because software engineering has traditionally been a male-dominated field, the resumes the AI model trained on were mostly from men. As a result, the AI started to downgrade applications that included female-associated terms,\u00a0even something as simple as mentioning a \u201cwomen\u2019s chess club\u201d! This shocking bias\u00a0came to light\u00a0in a 2018 news report, where it was revealed that Amazon had quietly scrapped the tool after noticing discrimination against female candidates.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span data-contrast=\"none\">Watch the video\u00a0to understand\u00a0how this bias\u00a0was\u00a0formed, what it teaches us about machine learning and training data, and how large language models process information through tokens, probabilities, and patterns.\u00a0Learn\u00a0how AI systems absorb human biases from the data they are trained on\u00a0and why choosing the right training data matters.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Break that writer\u2019s block! 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