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Amazon’s scrapped recruitment AI didn’t like women, apparently
- Thursday | 11th October, 2018
They taught each to recognize some 50,000 terms that showed up on past candidates’ resumes. That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period. Still, Goodman and other critics of AI acknowledged it could be exceedingly difficult to sue an employer over automated hiring: Job candidates might never know it was being used. SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon’s machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new AI-powered recruiting engine did not like women. As for Amazon, the company managed to salvage some of what it learned from its failed AI experiment.
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