Amazon's sexist hiring algorithm could still be better than a human
Thursday, November 1, 2018 - 10:50
in Mathematics & Economics
Amazon decided to shut down its experimental artificial intelligence (AI) recruiting tool after discovering it discriminated against women. The company created the tool to trawl the web and spot potential candidates, rating them from one to five stars. But the algorithm learned to systematically downgrade women's CV's for technical jobs such as software developer.