Please read the attached article Hiring by Machines. Then answer each of the following five discussion questions posed in the case study. Please make sure to adopt a position and support it in a clear and concise manner and address all points raised in each discussion question.

1.) Trust is an increasingly important branding tool for tech companies in competitive markets. When a company opts for an open-source model, as Strategeion did, that decision may increase public perceptions of its trustworthiness. But does open sourcing necessarily imply trustworthiness? What other factors, if any, go in to determining a tech company’s trustworthiness? If a tech company chooses not to share its source code, does that mean it is untrustworthy?

2.) PARiS promised to make the hiring process more efficient. But are there other values that might be desirable in hiring? Diversity? Equity? Creativity? What, if anything, do companies risk losing when hiring procedures are so singularly focused on maximizing efficiency?

3.) Biased data sets pose a problem for ensuring fairness in AI systems. Given the company’s demographics, what could Strategeion’s engineers have done to counteract the skewed employee data? To what extent are such proactive efforts the responsibility of individual engineers or engineering teams?

4.) The type of discrimination practiced by PARiS might not seem as blatantly demeaning as a blanket hiring policy against those with physical disabilities, but it is any different from a moral standpoint? How might systems be designed to address this kind of insidious discrimination, which is, by definition, difficult to spot?

5.) Social science increasingly shows that there are advantages to a heterogenous workforce, but there are also advantages to homogeneity. A diverse workforce helps protect organizations against “group think,” for example, but groups that share certain experiences and backgrounds may find it easier to communicate with and understand one another, thereby reducing collective action problems. If you were a manager in charge of hiring at Strategeion, for which position would you advocate? Would you try to maintain the corporate culture by hiring people who resemble current employees, or would you argue that PARiS should be realigned to optimize for a broader range of types?