How Recruiting and HR can Start to Manage Bias For AI

As AI gets smarter, many talent acquisition specialists see it as a magic bullet for getting rid of discrimination. The truth is, even when your application of AI is unbiased, the data you're feeding it may not be. AI works best when you're using plenty of quality data to teach it, but, in Amazon's case, their computer models were taught to choose top applicants by learning from patterns found in resumes that had been submitted to the company over ten years. Most of these resumes came from men because the tech industry is male-dominated. Though Amazon taught their AI not to penalize gender-specific terms (i.e.