"Career coaches" are fear-farming the Stanford AI hiring study [debunk]

A Stanford study on AI hiring tool pymetrics found that while the tool showed bias against Black applicants when examined by individual job positions (~11%), most viral commentary misrepresented the narrow findings as indicting the entire AI hiring industry. The research revealed pymetrics trains on resemblance to existing employees rather than job performance, making it both biased and unvalidated, but career influencers exaggerated these specific limitations into broader panic about AI systematically rejecting candidates everywhere.