Hold on here. This article seems to have buried a pretty important piece of information wayyy down in the middle of the text.

> Gender bias was not the only issue. Problems with the data that underpinned the models’ judgments meant that unqualified candidates were often recommended for all manner of jobs, the people said. With the technology returning results almost at random, Amazon shut down the project, they said.

Granted an article isn't going to get as much attention without an attractive headline but that seems a far more likely reason to have an AI based recruiting recommendation scrapped. The discovery of a negative weight associated with "women's" or graduates of two unnamed women's colleges is notable but if it's tossing out results "almost at random" then...well there seems to be bigger problems?