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Reuters — Amazon scraps AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women
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- Amazon Recruiting AI Discriminated Against Women
event | 1 Jan 2018 | 80%
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…