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AI recruiter BINNED due to sexist hiring decisions

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AI recruiter BINNED due to sexist hiring decisions

Amazon has been forced to switch off a high-tech recruiting engine after it began to ignore the CVs of female candidates - Reuters reports.

The company’s recruitment team had hoped to create an AI that would learn what kinds of resume was most successful, then be able to put forward the best applicants to the hiring managers.

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