AI incident
Amazon recruiting tool biased against women
Amazon · 2018
Organisation
Amazon
Year
2018
Failure mode
Training-data bias
Severity
critical
Domain
Employment, HR & recruitment
Source
Reuters, 2018
What happened
A résumé-screening model learned to penalise CVs containing "women’s", and was scrapped.
What would have prevented it
Pre-deployment bias audit + representative, examined training data
Requirements this maps to
Editorial cross-reference from our prevention note — it is not a finding that any law was breached.