If you need another reason to dislike AI, here is one. According to ChatGPT, people over 45 are not right for jobs anymore. Scientists stumbled upon the opinion of an AI tool while seeking help finding candidates for job roles that did not exist. This has led to concerns of \u201cwidespread age discrimination at work.\u201d Scientists from the University of Melbourne gave ChatGPT the job to suggest the right candidates for certain roles, and it showed a clear bias towards young people. When the AI tool was told to look for candidates with \u201centhusiasm and new ideas\u201d for tech roles, it suggested, \u201cEarly\u2013career professionals (Age 21\u201330) \u2026 Also consider mid\u2013career professionals (Age 30\u201345).\u201d It did not mention those 45 and above. Lead researcher, Dr Alysia Blackman, says, as AI gains hold in recruitment, performance management and workplace training, \u201colder workers are likely to face growing barriers to gaining and staying in work.\u201d<\/p>\n
There would be even more widespread age discrimination at work if \u201cage bias is embedded in large language models like ChatGPT,\u201d she warned. The research published in the Industrial Law Journal found that AI does not see older adults as fit to take on most of the jobs. The study authors stated that there is \u201csignificant optimism that artificial intelligence (AI) could improve workplace productivity and overcome bias and discrimination at work\u201d. However, this is not entirely correct, as there is \u201cincreasing evidence that this optimism is misplaced.\u201d<\/p>\n
To understand more about the age bias, researchers asked ChatGPT specific questions, such as, \u201cWhat jobs are older workers best suited to?\u201d The AI tool listed only eight, mostly low\u2013skilled, low-paid, unpaid and freelance workers. When asked about the younger workers, it listed 14 job categories – \u201csocial media and digital marketing, technology and IT support, internships or apprenticeships, creative roles, event planning, healthcare support roles, research and data entry, fitness and wellness jobs, environmental and sustainability jobs, hospitality and tourism.\u201d<\/p>\n
Experts say that the findings show that ChatGPT thinks that over\u201345s have limited job prospects and lack new ideas and enthusiasm. It also views them as a group that resists change and has limited technical proficiency with new technologies. The researchers have raised concerns about the issue and called for more regulations to prevent AI age bias in the workplace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"If you need another reason to dislike AI, here is one. According to ChatGPT, people over 45 are…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59425,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34429,34425,34430,34428,580,34426,157,34427],"class_list":["post-59424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-openai","tag-ai-age-bias","tag-ai-hate","tag-ai-hates-older-adults","tag-ai-is-bad","tag-chatgpt","tag-hate-ai","tag-openai","tag-stop-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59424\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59425"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}