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AI Recruitment Criticized for Inaccurate Personality Profiling

3/26/2026

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Michael Whitbrock, computer scientist, expressed skepticism about personality profiling in AI-assisted recruitment and recommended skills-focused questions.
Jesse Dench, a Woolworths applicant with dyslexia, received an AI report that he and his mother found presumptuous and inaccurate.
The AI feedback included compliments and criticisms that Dench and his mother deemed unhelpful.
Woolworths stated that AI is part of recruitment and does not determine hires, while offering alternatives for neurodiverse candidates.

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Story summary

Michael Whitbrock, computer scientist, expressed skepticism about personality profiling in AI-assisted recruitment and recommended skills-focused questions.
Jesse Dench, a Woolworths applicant with dyslexia, received an AI report that he and his mother found presumptuous and inaccurate.
The AI feedback included compliments and criticisms that Dench and his mother deemed unhelpful.
Woolworths stated that AI is part of recruitment and does not determine hires, while offering alternatives for neurodiverse candidates.