For the last four years, Erin Kistler has applied for thousands of jobs at companies like Paypal, Microsoft and Netflix, only to(结果却（表示出乎意料）) find her résumé(简历) disappear into a black hole(黑洞；比喻信息消失之处). A product manager with nearly 20 years of experience, Kistler believes she was qualified(有资格的，胜任的) for every role, yet she never received a single interview.
过去四年里，Erin Kistler 向 PayPal、微软和 Netflix 等公司申请了数千个职位，却只发现自己的简历石沉大海。作为一名拥有近 20 年经验的产品经理，Kistler 相信自己胜任每一个职位，然而她从未收到过一次面试通知。
Now, Kistler is suing(起诉) Eightfold AI, the Silicon Valley maker of hiring software used by hundreds of companies, including those where she applied, in a class-action lawsuit(集体诉讼). The case, filed in January in California court, is one of the first to argue that automated screening functions as an undisclosed(未公开的) consumer report or applicant dossier(档案，卷宗), ranking job applicants on their likelihood of success(成功的可能性) without giving them the chance to see or challenge the results, according to Kistler’s legal team.
如今，Kistler 正在起诉 Eightfold AI——这家硅谷公司开发的招聘软件被数百家公司使用，其中包括她曾申请过的公司。这起集体诉讼于 1 月在加州法院提起，据 Kistler 的法律团队称，该案是首批主张自动化筛选相当于未公开的消费者报告或申请人档案的案件之一，它根据求职者成功的可能性对其进行排名，却不给他们查看或质疑结果的机会。
The lawsuit is one of several new legal battles over companies’ use of AI in employment decisions. Workers are also suing Meta over an internal AI system that allegedly(据称) targeted them for layoffs(将他们列为裁员目标) because they took parental(父母的；亲职的) or medical leave. And a recent lawsuit against IBM alleges that AI tools discriminated(歧视) against older workers.
这起诉讼是围绕企业在雇佣决策中使用 AI 而展开的几场新法律战之一。员工们还在起诉 Meta，因其内部 AI 系统涉嫌针对休过育儿假或病假的员工进行裁员。最近针对 IBM 的一起诉讼则指控 AI 工具歧视老年员工。
AI use in hiring is growing
AI 在招聘中的使用正在增长
The fear of algorithmic blacklisting
对算法拉黑的恐惧
Can AI be responsibly integrated into hiring?
AI 能否负责任地融入招聘？