Unnatural Selection: How AI Is Rewriting the Rules of Hiring

By Joshua Paul

A few of the questions at the center of this book:

Why has employment discrimination proven to be so intractable a problem for more than six decades?Will AI make hiring more fair, or will it reinforce and solidify existing inequalities?Could hiring that's more fair turn out to have unforeseen harmful consequences?How can employers ensure they're using AI in a way that's both effective (hiring the best-qualified people) and legally compliant?

Intelligent, AI-driven systems are poised to play an increasing role in deciding who gets hired, promoted, and fired. This change has the potential to make hiring more open and transparent by forcing employers to articulate hiring standards that until now have gone unstated. Unnatural Selection draws on five centuries of hiring history, a century of behavioral science research, and the first lawsuits now reaching the courts to lay out what the machines get wrong, what humans always got wrong, and what every employer has to decide before handing hiring to AI.

Josh Paul spent a decade leading recruiting at technology startups before founding an AI recruiting company.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0HB12C15T
• ISBN13: 9798188236618
• Release Date: July 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 392 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"