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He Couldn’t Land a Job Interview. Was AI to Blame?

Backchannel Latest · Todd Feathers · last updated

Armed with some Python and a white-hot sense of injustice, one medical student spent six months trying to figure out whether an algorithm trashed his job application.

It was mid-October, peak leaf-peeping season in Hanover, New Hampshire, and Chad Markey was on a rare break between clinical rotations during his last year of medical school. He should have been inhaling Green Mountain air and gossiping with his Dartmouth classmates about life after graduation. In a few months, they’d all be going their separate ways to start residency training at hospitals around the country.

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