According to Reuters, Amazon engineers found that besides churning out totally unsuitable candidates, the so-called AI project showed a bias against women. To Oxford University researcher Dr ...

The system thus drew the assumption that male candidates were preferable, and began to downgrade CVs containing the word ‘women'. Amazon ... AI's inner-working resides in the training data: the ...

It downgraded resumes containing the words "women's," and filtered out candidates who'd attended two women's only colleges ... racial bias against black people. Over-reliance on AI for things ...

These female helpers are portrayed as "obliging and eager to please", reinforcing the idea that women ... and Amazon, staffed by overwhelmingly male engineering teams, have built AI systems ...

Artists are taking up the fight against AI’s coded bias and exposing some of its pitfalls. Whether it’s Google Translate arbitrarily assigning genders to certain professions, or Amazon sifting ...