It isn’t necessarily inscrutable.

It will be, almost certainly. But for many, the entire reason is to try and remove it, so it won’t have their name, and maybe not their zip code as a considered factor.

This will depend very much on the organization in question- which gets to my point. There’s some high level bullshit that many applicants never get through just because.

Race. Zip code. Name. They just don’t have to be used.

Or more complicated… college from where the got degrees. If an applicant graduated from an HBC it’s a not bad bet that they’re… black. Or at least “woke”. On the other hand, some one who graduated from some deeply conservative college is almost certainly a conservative.

A human is going to make those connections regardless. An AI can be made to not even know there is a connection