15Human agencyBelow the top 20
Automated hiring as a closed door
AffordanceImpact domainBoth
Statement (NASA form)
Given that screening models already reject most applicants before a human sees them, there is a possibility of whole classes of people never reaching a conversation resulting in a labor market whose first filter cannot be appealed or even described.
Likelihood
4Likely
Consequence
3Major
Urgency
3Priority
The rejection letter used to have a name. Now it has a score.
Composite 15 = 4×3 + 3
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Apprenticeship quotas in firms that deploy the models · Automatic stabilisers for exposed graduating cohorts · University curricula rebuilt around the remaining scarce work · Pace rules: no irreversible action faster than a human can reconstruct it · A real off-ramp that still functions · Contract-first delegation with privilege attenuation · Duty of care on high-stakes delegates