Jul 22, 2026 – 5.00amBefore OpenAI and Anthropic came along, one of the first well-publicised uses of artificial intelligence came from online retailer Amazon, which in 2014 built a tool to sift through job applications to identify good candidates.It became notable because the tool taught itself to pick male candidates over female ones because the majority of previous successful applicants had, in fact, been men.Subscribe to gift this articleGift 5 articles to anyone you choose each month when you subscribe.Subscribe nowAlready a subscriber? Fetching latest articles
Should the bots be banned from sifting through resumes?
Jacinta Allan wants to make Victoria the first state to outlaw what she says is hidden discrimination baked into AI hiring tools.
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