caption Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos. source Chip Somodevilla / Getty Images Amazon abandoned a project to build an AI recruitment tool, which engineers found was discriminating against female candidates. Dr Sandra Wachter, an AI researcher at Oxford University, told Business Insider that the gender bias was hardly surprising. You feed an AI with garbage and it will spit garbage out, she said. In Amazon’s case, the machine may have reflected the fact that the historical data it was being fed was predominantly male résumés. Nonetheless, Wachter believes algorithms could become better decision-making tools than humans. Amazon admitted this week that it experimented with using machine learning to build a recruitment tool. The trouble is, it didn’t exactly produce fantastic results and it was later abandoned. 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 Sandra Wachter, the news that an artificially intelligent system had taught itself to discriminate against women was nothing new. “From a technical perspective it’s not very surprising, it’s what we call ‘garbage in and garbage out,’” she told Business Insider. Garbage in, garbage out The problem boils down… Read full this story
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