BiasMedium
LinkedIn Search Prefers Male Names
- Occurred
- Sep 6, 2016
- Published
- Sep 8, 2016
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
An investigation by The Seattle Times in 2016 found a gender bias in LinkedIn's search engine.
Developers
Deployers
Harmed parties
- Women
- Women and girls
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Investigation revealed gender bias in search results, causing unfair outcomes for female users.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8