Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ...
by dx87 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:14PM
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If it's anything like conferences trying to increase diversity numbers, they don't specifically target one gender, they focus their recruiting efforts on sites and locations that typically have a much higher representation, like a girls college, or a girls hacker group. That way they aren't actively saying "we won't accept male applicants", but they ensure that 90% of the applicants will be from the target demographic.
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Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ...
by ramblerouser on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @03:54PM
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>We did eventually find a few great female applicants, but it took a lot of work and a lot of time dedicated specifically to that goal.
How is this not sexism? Replace female with male in the above quote and tell me it isnt sexist.
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ...
by hamandcheese on Thursday October 11, 2018 @12:31AM
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Diversity is generally accepted to be a positive thing. Targeting women specifically furthers that goal. Targeting men specifically furthers no goal.
So yes, sexism is not symmetric. Same with race.
Re:Amazon scraps secret AI recruiting tool that showed bias ...
by ramblerouser on Friday October 12, 2018 @02:42AM
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How much money and time goes into hiring more female septic tank cleaners? Garbage men? Construction workers? Truck drivers? If sexism isn't symmetric then feminism isnt about equality.