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Amazon Abandons Controversial Gender-Biased Recruitment Tool

A recent development at Amazon has seen the discarding of an AI tool utilized in their recruitment process, which was accused of bias agains...

Amazon Abandons Controversial AI Recruitment Tool Due to Bias Concerns

In a move towards responsible AI, Amazon has decided to discontinue the use of an AI-based recruitment tool that was criticized for its sexi...

The Limits of Amazon's Automated Recruiting Tool: A Cautionary Tale in Responsible AI

Exploring the instance where an AI tool used by Amazon for recruiting showed gender bias, underscoring the need for safe and secure AI. This...

Amazon Abandons Bias-Prone AI Recruitment Tool

Amazon has decided to discontinue an artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment tool that had developed gender bias in its hiring decisions, s...

Sexism in AI Recruitment: Amazon's Sexist Hiring Data Trains Biased AI

Exploring the consequences of using biased data to train an AI for resume screening, this incident highlights the need for responsible AI go...

Gender Bias in Amazon's AI Recruitment Tool

A study conducted by researchers at the University of California found that Amazon's AI tool used to screen resumes showed bias against wome...

Amazon Dismisses Bias in Resume-Scanning AI

Recent reports indicate that Amazon has discontinued its experimental resume-reading AI after it was found to show a bias towards male candi...

The Unintended Consequences of Amazon's Automated Recruitment Tool

In 2014, an automated hiring tool developed by Amazon was discovered to show gender bias in its recommendations. The tool, designed to strea...

The Impact of Bias in AI Recruitment: The Case of Amazon's 'Sexist' Tool

Amazon recently deactivated a recruitment tool that inadvertently perpetuated gender bias. This incident underscores the importance of respo...

Bias in AI Recruitment: Amazon Abandons Tool Showing Discrimination Against Women

In a move towards responsible AI governance, Amazon has discarded an algorithm used for recruitment purposes. This tool, intended to streaml...

Amazon Discontinues Bias-prone AI Recruitment Tool

Tech giant Amazon has ceased the operation of an internal AI tool utilized for recruiting candidates following concerns about gender bias. T...

Amazon Abandons Biased AI Recruitment Tool: A Call for Responsible AI Governance

In a recent development, Amazon has discontinued an internal AI tool used in its recruiting process that reportedly showed bias against wome...

Data source

Incident data is from the AI Incident Database (AIID).

When citing the database as a whole, please use:

McGregor, S. (2021) Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents: The AI Incident Database. In Proceedings of the Thirty-Third Annual Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence (IAAI-21). Virtual Conference.

Pre-print on arXiv · Database snapshots & citation guide

We use weekly snapshots of the AIID for stable reference. For the official suggested citation of a specific incident, use the “Cite this incident” link on each incident page.