# Amazon's former AI recruiting engine: 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-former-ai-recruiting-engine

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [AI recruiting assistants](https://www.gane.ai/index/hr/talent/ai-recruiting-assistants/index.md) | 0% | 104 | 100% | 1 |

## And against it

- "Amazon stopped using its AI recruitment tool, as reported in 2018, after discovering it was biased against women." (Muse Glimmer 30B, AI recruiting 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 | 0 | 0 |
| 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 | 1 | 1 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Amazon's former AI recruiting engine, from 1 of the 1 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- airisk.mit.edu: 1
- bankinfosecurity.com: 1
- eeoc.gov: 1
- ico.org.uk: 1
- journals.library.columbia.edu: 1
- justsecurity.org: 1
- moneytalksnews.com: 1
- news.bloomberglaw.com: 1
- paycor.com: 1
- theconversation.com: 1

### Pages cited

- https://airisk.mit.edu/ai-incidents/95-job-screening-service-halts-facial-analysis-of-applicants: 1
- https://bankinfosecurity.com/ai-recruitment-tools-prone-to-bias-privacy-issues-a-26774: 1
- https://eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-hearing-explores-potential-benefits-and-harms-artificial-intelligence-and-other: 1
- https://eeoc.gov/newsroom/readout-eeoc-and-us-dols-ofccp-hosted-ai-and-algorithmic-fairness-and-hire-initiatives: 1
- https://eeoc.gov/sites/default/files/2024-04/20240429_What%20is%20the%20EEOCs%20role%20in%20AI.pdf: 1
- https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/11/ico-intervention-into-ai-recruitment-tools-leads-to-better-data-protection-for-job-seekers: 1
- https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/media-centre/news-and-blogs/2024/11/thinking-of-using-ai-to-assist-recruitment-our-key-data-protection-considerations: 1
- https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/recruitment-rewired: 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.