Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.¶
Dastin, J. (2018). Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias against women.
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- And in hiring analytics, a resume-screening model graded on matching prior hires learns a demographic or school-prestige proxy that correlated with past selection, encoding none of the job-relevant construct
This sourceAmazon's resume-screening model, trained on past hires skewed male, learned gender proxies (e.g., penalizing 'women's,' downgrading all-women's-college graduates) rather than job-relevant constructs — the hiring-analytics demographic-proxy shortcut.
- And in hiring analytics, a resume-screening model graded on matching prior hires learns a demographic or school-prestige proxy that correlated with past selection, encoding none of the job-relevant construct
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