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I wonder how much effort has been made to avoid these systems blacklisting people for protected traits (sex, age, race, etc) or disabilities.

Probably very little.

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Who is to say the benefit of this algorithm isn't doing such filtering in a nominally neutral way? What if it turned out 40 year old Latino women with vision loss are top performers and the algorithms just naturally selected for them?

This is unlikely considering algorithms act on the given training data set, not on outliers imagined by playing devil's advocate:

remember amazon's recruiting program https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17958784/ai-recruiting-t...

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