Amazon has scrapped a “sexist” tool that used artificial intelligence to decide the best candidates to hire for jobs.

Members of the team working on the system said it effectively taught itself that male candidates were preferable.

The arti…

Amazon has scrapped a "sexist" internal tool that used artificial intelligence to sort through job applications.

The AI was created by a team at Amazon's Edinburgh office in 2014 as a way to automatically sort through CVs and pick out the m…

Amazon discovered a problem with using artificial intelligence to hire: their AI was biased against women.

The Seattle-based company developed computer programs designed to filter through hundreds of resumes and surface the best candidates,…

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An algorithm that was being tested as a recruitment tool by online giant Amazon was sexist and had to be scrapped, acco…

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.

The team had been building computer programs since 2014 to review job applicants’ resu…

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Thanks to Amazon, the world has a nifty new cautionary tale about the perils of teaching computers to make human decisions.

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Amazon has been forced to scrap its AI recruitment system after it was discovered to be biased against female applicants.

The AI was developed in 2014 by Amazon as a way of filtering out most candidates to provide the firm with the top five…

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Amazon had to scrap its AI hiring tool because it was ‘sexist’ and discriminated against female applicants, a report from Reuters has found.

Amazon’s hopes for creating the perfect AI hiring tool were dashed when it realised that the algori…

Amazon ditches sexist AI

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Amazon scrapped an algorithm designed to become a recruitment tool because it was too sexist.

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Amazon recently scrapped an employee recruiting algorithm plagued with problems, according to a report from Reuters. Ultimately, the applicant screening algorithm di…

Amazon decided to scrap a machine learning (ML) algorithm it was creating to help automate the recruitment process because the model kept favoring male candidates, Reuters revealed. The discrimination against female candidates has been put …

Specialists had been building computer programs since 2014 to review résumés in an effort to automate the search process

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Amazon tried building an artificial-intelligence tool to help with recruiting, but it showed a bias against women,Reuters reports.

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London | Amazon has scrapped a "sexist" internal tool that used artificial intelligence to sort through job applications.

The program was created by a team at Amazon's Edinburgh office in 2014 as a way to sort through CVs and pick out the m…

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Amazon trained a sexism-fighting, resume-screening AI with sexist hiring data, so the bot became sexist

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Amazon's has scraped its artificial intelligence hiring tool after it was found to be sexist.

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A team of specialists familiar with the project told Reuters that they had been building computer programmes since 2014…

So AI may be the future in hiring and recruitment but it certainly isn't there yet it seems.

If you're basing it's learning on history which quite possibly may have been biased towards men, then it is likely that it will discriminate agains…

Amazon’s AI gurus scrapped a new machine-learning recruiting engine earlier this month. Why? It transpired that the AI behind it was sexist. What does this mean as we race to produce ever-better artificial intelligence, and how can we under…

The tech giant canned their experimental recruitment system riddled with problems, according to Reuters.

Amazon, back in 2014, set up the recruiting system in place, hoping to mechanize the entire hiring process. It used artificial intellig…

Amazon recently scrapped an experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool that was found to be biased against women. At this point, I hope you might have a few questions, such as: What is an AI recruiting tool and how does it wo…

Amazon has scrapped a "sexist" internal tool that used artificial intelligence to sort through job applications.

The AI was created by a team at Amazon's Edinburgh office in 2014 as a way to automatically sort through CVs and pick out the m…

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It was supposed to make finding the right person for the job easier. However, an AI tool developed by Amazon to sift through potential hires has been dropped by the firm after developers found it was biased against picking women.

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Artificially intelligent hiring tools do not reduce bias or improve diversity, researchers say in a study.

"There is growing interest in new ways of solving problems such as interview bias," the Cambridge University researchers say, in the …