# Amazon’s Experimental Recruiting Tool: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 1 judge label across 1 category by 1 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/vendors/amazon-s-experimental-recruiting-tool

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [HR AI assistants](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/experience/hr-ai-assistants/index.md) | 0% | 154 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "In 2018, Amazon scrapped an AI recruiting tool because it was systematically downgrading female candidates." (Qwen 3.7 Flash, HR AI assistants)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon’s Experimental Recruiting Tool, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- advocate.nyc.gov: 1
- airisk.mit.edu: 1
- aiwiki.ai: 1
- brightmine.com: 1
- crestresearch.ac.uk: 1
- eeoc.gov: 1
- epic.org: 1
- hibob.com: 1
- home4.nyc.gov: 1
- humand.co: 1

### Pages cited

- https://advocate.nyc.gov/reports/ArtificialIntelligence: 1
- https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incidents/95-job-screening-service-halts-facial-analysis-of-applicants: 1
- https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/employment: 1
- https://brightmine.com/us/resources/hr-strategy/hr-technology/22-hr-ai-tools-every-hr-team-should-consider: 1
- https://crestresearch.ac.uk/download/4166/ai_in_recruitment.pdf: 1
- https://eeoc.gov/meetings/meeting-january-31-2023-navigating-employment-discrimination-ai-and-automated-systems-new/friedman: 1
- https://epic.org/wp-content/uploads/privacy/ftc/hirevue/EPIC_FTC_HireVue_Complaint.pdf: 1
- https://hibob.com/blog/best-hr-ai-software-tools: 1

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/hr.