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If the gender was passed as a "feature" in the machine learning model, then the company may have been biased. If not, then the majority of the women's CVs were
by xarill 8y ago
If the gender was passed as a "feature" in the machine learning model, then the company may have been biased. If not, then the majority of the women's CVs were inferior. This important information is not present in the article.
- core-questions 8y agoThis entire article is a strong hint that the AI system simply picked the better resumes, where better = more likely to get hired, exactly as it was designed to do. The fact that more men than women satisfy these requirements should come as a surprise to precisely nobody. Fact is, there are more men than women working in tech, especially seriously hard-core stuff like these big companies need. This is most likely out of their own personal volition, and no matter how much outreach we do, this is likely to stay the case for generations. Of course, that's also an egregiously wrongthink position to take. Double plus ungood.