Gender Inequality with Artificial Intelligence

In 2015, it was found out that the algorithm used for hiring employees for Amazon was biased. It was trained on the number of resumes submitted over the past ten years, and due to the existing gender gap in the industry, as the number of male candidates was higher than female candidates, the algorithm also favored males. In a similar case in the UK, a gymnasium wrongly assumed that a woman was a man, just because she was a doctor. The algorithm used titles of the members to allot a fitting room. The algorithm had accidentally learned that the title of Doctor is given to men, which resulted in this error.