- why are we providing the names and addresses as input to the neural network? they should be annonymized?

humans may also act on the same information. The fact that you are less likely to be called if you have an arabic sounding name in europe is well documented.

at least with neural networks we can remove those variables.

I guess another problem could be that our current distribution is biased. so the system might give an advantage to new-grads from unviersity X becausea lot of old employees are from it. which is inherent disadvantage from people from tradtionally-black university Y.

but hiring based on alma mater is already a common practice.