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Interview · 7 October 2026

# Barb Hyman, Founder and CEO of Sapia.ai – Interview Series

Original title, in Spanish: “Barb Hyman, fundadora y directora ejecutiva de Sapia.ai – Serie de entrevistas”

**Publication**

Unite.AI (United States)

**Author**

Unsigned

**Published on**

7 October 2026 · read in the page metadata · updated on 7 October 2026

## Summary

In this interview, Barb Hyman, founder and CEO of Sapia.ai, an AI recruitment technology company that she says has assessed more than ten million candidates, sets out her view of responsible AI adoption in business. She argues that employee trust, and not only productivity gains, should be measured from the moment an AI tool is deployed. She details the risks of reproducing recruitment biases when models are trained on historical data, and advocates separating generative AI (conversation) from deterministic systems (candidate scoring) to ensure auditability and explainability. She stresses the need for genuine human oversight of final decisions and presents Sapia.ai's "FAIR" model (fairness, validity, explainability, inclusivity) as a framework for responsible practices.

Summary based on the full text of the article.

[Read the article on Unite.AI →](https://www.unite.ai/es/barb-hyman-founder-and-ceo-of-sapia-ai-interview-series/)

## Figures cited

-   10,000,000 candidates
    
    number of candidates assessed by the Sapia.ai platform
    
    since Sapia.ai was founded (2018), worldwide
    
    > « Sapia.ai afirma que su tecnología ha evaluado a más de 10 millones de candidatos »
    
    Source: Sapia.ai
    

## Classification

**Country**

Worldwide scope

**Company size**

All sizes

**Industries**

Consulting, legal, accounting, business services · Software vendors, IT services companies, telecoms

**Companies**

Boston Consulting Group (cited), Sapia.ai (supplier), REA Group (cited)

**Keywords**

recruitment, algorithmic bias, explainability, trust, generative AI, human resources

Entry written by Marsanne Studio from the cited article, with the help of an AI model (claude-sonnet-5). The rights to the article and its illustrations belong to Unite.AI. Entry translated from French by Claude Sonnet 5.5.