Incident 111: Amazon Flex Drivers Allegedly Fired via Automated Employee Evaluations

Description: Amazon Flex's contract delivery drivers were dismissed using a minimally human-interfered automated employee performance evaluation based on indicators impacted by out-of-driver's-control factors and without having a chance to defend against or appeal the decision.

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Alleged: Amazon developed an AI system deployed by Amazon Flex, which harmed Amazon Flex employees and Amazon Flex drivers.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
111
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2015-09-25
Editors
Sean McGregor, Khoa Lam

GMF Taxonomy Classifications

Taxonomy Details

Known AI Goal

Automatic Skill Assessment

Known AI Technology

Geolocation Data, Face Detection

Potential AI Technology

Regression

Potential AI Technical Failure

Incomplete Data Attribute Capture, Misconfigured Threshold, Generalization Failure, Limited Dataset, Covariate Shift

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