インシデント 47の引用情報

Description: An investigation by The Seattle Times in 2016 found a gender bias in LinkedIn's search engine.
推定: LinkedInが開発し提供したAIシステムで、Womenに影響を与えた

インシデントのステータス

インシデントID
47
レポート数
9
インシデント発生日
2016-09-06
エディタ
Sean McGregor

CSETv0 分類法のクラス

分類法の詳細

Full Description

In 2016, an investigation by the Seattle Times found that the LinkedIn search engine feature potentially possessed gender bias, as the LinkedIn search function would present any male users before female users when users would search for names that possess both male and female profiles. In addition, when a user would search a female name, a prompt would ask if the user was searching for the male equivalent of the name. The same did not occur when searching the 100 most common male names.

Short Description

An investigation by The Seattle Times in 2016 found a gender bias in LinkedIn's search engine.

Severity

Negligible

Harm Distribution Basis

Sex

AI System Description

Linkedin uses search engines trained on and guided by relative frequencies of words appearing in past queries and member profiles

System Developer

LinkedIn

Sector of Deployment

Information and communication

Relevant AI functions

Perception, Cognition, Action

AI Techniques

Machine learning, natural language processing model

AI Applications

recommendation engine, decision support

Location

Global

Named Entities

LinkedIn, The Seattle Times, Microsoft

Technology Purveyor

LinkedIn

Beginning Date

2016-08-31

Ending Date

2016-08-31

Near Miss

Unclear/unknown

Intent

Accident

Lives Lost

No

Data Inputs

words appearing in user past queries and member profiles

CSETv1 分類法のクラス

分類法の詳細

Harm Distribution Basis

sex

Sector of Deployment

information and communication

LinkedIn's search engine may reflect a gender bias
stuff.co.nz · 2016

LinkedIn says its suggested results are generated automatically by an analysis of the tendencies of past searchers.

Search for a female contact on LinkedIn, and you may get a curious result. The professional networking website asks if you m…

Tech companies work toward website searches free of bias
startribune.com · 2016

– Search for a female ­contact on LinkedIn, and you might get a curious result. The professional networking website asks if you meant to search for a similar-looking man's name.

A search for "Stephanie Williams," for example, brings up a pr…

LinkedIn’s search algorithm apparently favored men until this week
qz.com · 2016

Until Sep. 7, LinkedIn users searching for female contacts on the site may have noticed some strange results. Searches for common female names were yielding suggestions for male names as well.

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LinkedIn Tweaks Search Engine After Gender Bias Allegations
time.com · 2016

MOTTO Samantha Cooney is the content strategy editor at TIME.

A week after the Seattle Times reported that LinkedIn’s search engine may reflect a gender bias, the networking platform announced a tweak to its search algorithm.

The Times repo…

LinkedIn investigation claims searches for female professionals end up suggesting MEN
dailymail.co.uk · 2016

The question of whether a computer can be biased or not may seem frivolous, but it could make all the difference when it comes to being found online.

Now, an investigation by a US newspaper has suggested that this bias may be present on the…

LinkedIn denies gender bias claim over site search
bbc.com · 2016

Image copyright Getty Images Image caption LinkedIn launched in 2002

LinkedIn has denied that its search algorithm has been biased towards suggesting male versions of female names in searches on its website.

A Seattle Times investigation fo…

LinkedIn Denies Gender-Bias Problem
thecut.com · 2016

LinkedIn.

Last week, a Seattle Times investigation revealed that LinkedIn’s search function seems to have a pretty pronounced gender bias. It turns out, when you search for a woman’s name on LinkedIn, the site has a pesky habit of asking wh…

Bye Bye, Gender Bias! LinkedIn Will No Longer Ask Users If They Meant to Search for a Man
glamour.com · 2016

Have you ever searched for a contact on LinkedIn only to have the networking site automatically prompt you to look up a man with a similar name? You're not alone. A recent investigation by the Seattle Times revealed a pervasive gender bias …

Does LinkedIn have a gender bias?
digitaljournal.com · 2016

Sep 19, 2016 in Technology The ‘professional’ social networking site LinkedIn has been accused of having a gender bias. This is through providing more male professionals in its search results than females. "A Fresh Conversation on Gender is…

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