Amazon Machine Learning Gender Bias

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Amazon machine learning gender bias. The new study uncovers bias in AI systems from Amazon and Kairos using the same methodology. Racism and gender bias can easily and inadvertently infect machine learning algorithms. The algorithm repeated bias towards men reflected in the technology industry An algorithm that was being tested as a recruitment tool by online giant Amazon was.

This really helped expose it. So its no surprise to find that AI is learning gender bias from humans. Amazon abandoned a project to build an AI recruitment tool which engineers found was discriminating against female candidates.

We look at machine learning and the bias that it has but in this exact instance the Amazon instance it exposed the bias that was there. Today Im extremely happy to announce Amazon SageMaker Clarify a new capability of Amazon SageMaker that helps customers detect bias in machine learning ML models and increase transparency by helping explain model behavior to stakeholders and customers. Their new recruiting engine did not like women.

A few weeks ago there was some overly sensationalized news about Amazon machine learning ML models and gender bias for job applicant recommendations. That is precisely the way that American colleges practice positive discrimination. As for Amazon the gender bias result they obtained is completely unsurprising once you realize how they approached the problem.

The Seattle-based company developed. Dr Sandra Wachter an AI. I cant comment on the companys internal policies and politics but probably they didnt think it was an acceptable option.

Their AI was biased against women. They trained an ML algorithm on previously successful job applicants to try to predict which new applicants would be most successful. Amazon discovered a problem with using artificial intelligence to hire.

One prime example examined what job applicants were most likely to be hired. Gender and racial bias found in Amazons facial recognition technology again 17 Research shows that Amazons tech has a harder time identifying gender in darker-skinned and female faces By James. Amazon isnt the only company to be alert to the problem of algorithmic bias.

Earlier this year f500linkFacebook f500link said it was testing a tool called Fairness Flow for spotting racial. Correct bias was already there. However bias is inherent in any decision-making system that involves humans.

Amazon could have easily corrected any gender bias in the past data by giving explicitly better ratings to female applicants. Amazons machine-learning specialists uncovered a big problem. As ML models are built by training algorithms that learn statistical patterns present in datasets several questions immediately.

The original Gender Shades study demonstrated bias in AI systems from Microsoft IBM and Face. Their new recruiting engine did not like women.

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