Amazon’s AI Hiring Technology to Screen Job Applicants

Amazon’s AI technology is now all set to start hiring and screening job applicants. The technology aims to predict which job applicants across certain corporate and warehouse jobs will be successful in a given role and fast-track them to an interview without a human recruiter’s involvement. Amazon first built AI hiring technology in the mid-2010s but discontinued the use of its system after it demonstrated a bias against women. Amazon has for years invested heavily in trying to automate different types of work and introduce new robots, in part because the company churns through so many front-line workers that it has at times feared running out of people to hire in some US regions. The tech giant has continued to research other ways to automate its warehouses and introduced new robots. . . .