25th March 2025
📆 Date: 25 March 2025 & 1 April 2025
👨🏻💻 Format: Online
⏳ Time: 9 AM — 12 PM Icelandic time
💂 Language: English
🏅Certification: Certificate upon completion
AI is revolutionizing hiring, but hidden biases can undermine fairness. Did you know that job-matching algorithms may unintentionally disadvantage women? For example, slower response times from women are often misinterpreted as a lack of interest, reducing their job recommendations.
To tackle these challenges, the BIAS Project invites HR professionals to a free, online, and hands-on capacity-building session in Iceland. Learn how to critically assess AI tools, address ethical concerns, and integrate fairness into recruitment processes.
✅ Understand bias in AI and HR
✅ Evaluate AI’s potential and limitations
✅ Balance AI insights with human judgment
✅ Develop strategies for fair and inclusive hiring
🔹 Case Studies – AI-driven recruitment challenges
🔹 Self-Reflection – Identifying personal biases
🔹 Practical Sessions – Hands-on experience with AI tools
| Content | Duration |
| Welcoming and introduction | 9:00–9:25 |
| What is a bias? Psychological & sociological underpinnings and self-reflection exercise | 9:25-10:05 |
| Elements of AI | 10:05-10:45 |
| Break | 10:45-10:55 |
| Ethical and social implications of AI in terms of bias | 10:55-11:25 |
| The policy framework | 11:25-11:55 |
| Wrap-up and conclusions | 11:55-12:00 |
| Content | Duration |
| Welcoming and agenda of the session | 09:00-09:10 |
| AI in recruitment: existing tools and systems and case studies of bias in recruitment using AI | 09:10-10:10 |
| Break | 10:10-10:20 |
| Challenging AI — A group exercise | 10:20-11:50 |
| Wrap up, exercise post questionnaire and conclusions | 11:50-12:00 |