BUS501 Real-World Connections: Episode 15, Let the Model Draft It?

About 2 minutes. Captions are available with the CC button. Open on YouTube.

Transcript

Narrator: Real-World Connections. Episode 15: Let the Model Draft It?

Narrator: Hearth & Harbor is one step from its five-year plan.

Narrator: Priya thinks she's found a shortcut.

Priya: I gave an AI tool our sales data. It drafted three strategy options overnight. It could pre-screen café job applications too.

Kofi: Yes, please. Queen Street got hundreds this spring. I can't read them all.

Adaeze: Faster sounds good. Hana, you're frowning.

Hana: I just read a case. A company called Strategeion built a resume screener named Paris. They trained it on resumes from their best and worst employees.

Tomás: Sounds sensible.

Hana: Most of their staff were veterans, so Paris learned that a history of sports meant good fit. It turned down a strong candidate who uses a wheelchair. The engineers had built it not to look at disability. It found a stand-in anyway.

Daniel: So the bias came in through the training data.

Hana: Right. And HR stopped double-checking because the lists looked like their own. Plus, staff never agreed to their resumes being used that way.

Kofi: So if we train it on my best baristas, we just hire copies of them.

Priya: Then the tool supports the process. It doesn't make the call. Same with strategy. I test every draft against what we actually know.

Adaeze: Speed is one value. Fairness is another. I want both written down before we switch anything on.

Leo: And I want a name next to whoever reviews what the model rejects.

Narrator: Hearth & Harbor wants the speed without turning into Strategeion.

Narrator: In hiring and in drafting strategy, where should a person stay in the loop, and which kind of fairness should the bakery write down first?

Pause and apply

Using the Strategeion case, list three risks of letting an AI tool screen Hearth & Harbor's café applicants. For each risk, write one human checkpoint. Then choose which meaning of fairness from the reading the bakery should put first, and give a short reason.

License: CC0 1.0 Universal (public domain dedication), except the Lucide icons (ISC License) and the background music (Motivating Mornings, Mixkit (Mixkit Stock Music Free License)), which aren't covered. https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/