> If it were what you were asserting, then this behavior and results would persist even without AI being used. Instead when they remove the filter for AI decisions (and AI mono-culture in decisions) the effect is no longer present.

> Our research also found that this pattern does not appear to be the case in other circumstances. We analyzed data from the largest prior study of hiring decisions, which sent 83,000 applications to 108 Fortune 500 firms during the same time period as our study and did not focus on whether AI was used to make decisions. We found that the rate at which applicants were rejected from every firm they applied to in this data was no higher than what you’d expect if each company decided independently of the others.

> If it were what you were asserting, then this behavior and results would persist even without AI being used. Instead when they remove the filter for AI decisions (and AI mono-culture in decisions) the effect is no longer present.

Thanks for this note, I missed this when skimming it. I would love to see their actual analysis here explained more than a single line, but this doesn't say the original study found no adverse impact at the job type level (they seem to say this wasn't analyzed), but rather that firms seemed to look more independent. Which makes sense for the headline, but is not about their notes on harms, which I still think have all the weaknesses I outlined.