[r00fus]

So the recruiters may or may not have been biased, but if the previous outcomes were (based on the candidate pool) then the AI is sure to have been "taught" that bias.

Unless Amazon is willing to accept a) another pool of data or b) that the data will yield bias and apply a correction, the AI is almost guaranteed to be taught the bias.

[kareemsabri]

Yep, I agree a skewed dataset is not good for the task of correcting an unequal distribution and is likely to maintain or even increase it.