Dear all, Our next seminar speaker at CEU is Dorothea Kuebler (WZB). Seminar title: ‘Behavioral measures improve AI hiring`. Abstract: The adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI) for hiring processes is often impeded by a scarcity of comprehensive employee data. We hypothesize that the inclusion of behavioral measures elicited from applicants can enhance the predictive accuracy of AI in hiring. We study this hypothesis in the context of microfinance loan officers. Our findings suggest that survey-based behavioral measures markedly improve the predictions of a random-forest algorithm trained to predict productivity within the sample relative to demographic information alone. We then validate the algorithm’s robustness to the selectivity of the training sample and potential strategic responses by applicants by running two out-of-sample tests: one forecasting the future performance of novice employees, and another with a field experiment on hiring. Both tests corroborate the effectiveness of incorporating behavioral data to predict performance and the usefulness of AI hiring. You are all cordially invited to her in-person seminar. Time and venue: March 4, Wednesday, 11.15am – 12.30pm, QS C-323, at CEU (51 Quellenstrasse, 1100 Vienna). Speaker’s website: https://www.wzb.eu/en/persons/dorothea-kubler Registration, till 12pm, the day before the seminar, is required at: https://forms.office.com/pages/responsepage.aspx?id=E1nE2VN24kuSC72wOGOBhDPxLiYqs2FKjgPAVi1DSIpUQUtVN1BQTkxRR0FTQTBESDBBSU1DSDRNUS4u&route=shorturl With questions, please contact the CEU seminar organizer, Timea L. Molnar, at molnartl@ceu.edu.