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Wasn't this tried like a year ago at one of FAANG companies and an AI was put in charge for automation process and it hired only male, mostly white, and got a h
by unnouinceput 7y ago
Wasn't this tried like a year ago at one of FAANG companies and an AI was put in charge for automation process and it hired only male, mostly white, and got a huge backlash? I can't quite recall the details nor the specific company but I do recall the backlash from feminists, so somebody help with a link please.
- e-_pusher 7y agoYou are probably thinking of this: https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17958784/ai-recruiting-tool-bias-amazon-report https://www.theverge.com/2018/10/10/17958784/ai-recruiting-t...
- unnouinceput 7y agoYup, that's it, thank you
- belorn 7y agoThere is no AI involved in this story. > potential employees undergo a basic competency assessment in which they are evaluated against 25 desirable attributes for software testers, such as the ability to learn new systems or take on feedback. Following these initial tests, potential staff undergo a week of working from home fully paid.
- TrackerFF 7y agoWell, if you train a ML-based hiring system on the data you have - and all the top performers just happen to fall within a certain narrow group (for example: Male, 30s, White or Asians, College educated, etc.), then that said system will most likely predict similar individuals to be good hires - while radically different will get random, or even negative predictions. Imagine it as a movie recommender system. If you only watch a certain type of movies, then that system is going to keep recommending similar movies to you.