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Amazon Ditched Job Applicant Rating Tool Due To Gender Bias
- Reuters, Thursday, October 11, 2018 5:46 AM
Last year, Amazon reportedly ditched a machine-learning tool for rating job applicants after it was found to have a bias against female candidates. “The company realized its new system was not rating candidates for software developer jobs and other technical posts in a gender-neutral way,” Reuters reports. “That is because Amazon’s computer models were trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in resumes submitted to the company over a 10-year period."
