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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.