I feel like many comments here are taking this story on face value, but the cynic in me reads this as a planned leak to skapegoat a (hitherto unknown) AI system

I feel like many comments here are taking this story on face value, but the cynic in me reads this as a planned leak to skapegoat a (hitherto unknown) AI system for their existing hiring biases. Public perception of AI is more aware of model biases nowadays, and we seem all to willing to accept this explanation over the simpler explanation that tech hiring at Amazon is broken in the same way it is everywhere.