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Amazon Recruiting AI Discriminated Against Women

Amazon built an AI recruiting tool trained on a decade of historical hiring data. Because most CVs submitted during that period came from men, the model learned to penalise CVs that contained words like 'women's' (as in 'women's chess club') and downgraded graduates of all-women's colleges. Amazon…

Confidence
80%
Sources
1
Entities
1
Detected
1 Jan 2018

Event summary

Amazon built an AI recruiting tool trained on a decade of historical hiring data. Because most CVs submitted during that period came from men, the model learned to penalise CVs that contained words like 'women's' (as in 'women's chess club') and downgraded graduates of all-women's colleges. Amazon…

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