Subj : Salary advice from AI low
To : MIKE POWELL
From : Rob Mccart
Date : Thu Jul 31 2025 09:12 am
MP>Negotiating your salary is a difficult experience no matter who you are, so
>naturally, people are sometimes turning to ChatGPT and other AI chatbots for
>advice about how to get the best deal possible. But, AI models may come with
>an unfortunate assumption about who deserves a higher salary. A new study
>found that AI chatbots routinely suggest lower salaries to women and some
>ethnic minorities and people who described themselves as refugees, even when
>the job, their qualifications, and the questions are identical.
MP>Scientists at the Technical University of Applied Sciences
>Wrzburg-Schweinfurt conducted the study, discovering the unsettling results
>and the deeper flaw in AI they represent. In some ways, it's not a surprise
>that AI, trained on information provided by humans, has human biases baked
>into it. But that doesn't make it okay, or something to ignore.
The problem here is likely that the AI system bases it's ideas on
the current average (norm) and those salaries are common..
That information is really an estimate of what the hiring company
should have to pay based on that information rather than it is
suggesting the person looking for the job ask for more than the
average for a similar employee reducing their chances of being hired.
This in no way suggests I think anyone should be paid differently
based on anything but job skills.
