Amazon scraps 'sexist AI' recruitment tool
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- Amazon’s Experimental Hiring Tool Allegedly Displayed Gender Bias in Candidate Rankings
event | 15 Aug 2025 | 82%
Between 2014 and 2017, Amazon reportedly developed an AI-powered recruiting tool to score job applicants, trained on a decade of resumes purportedly drawn largely from men. Media reports say the system learned to favor male candidates, penalizing terms like "women's" and graduates from certain all-women's colleges. Efforts to remove these biases reportedly did not guarantee fairness, and the project was ultimately abandoned. Amazon reportedly states recruiters never solely r…