Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)

Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)


Jeffrey Dastin / Reuters:

Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates  —  SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc’s (AMZN.O) machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem: their new recruiting engine did not like women.

Sources detail how Amazon shut down a machine learning tool for rating job applications in 2017 because it was biased against female candidates (Jeffrey Dastin/Reuters)
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