Buttigieg fears tech could fuel racially biased credit decisions

Fox News Flash top headlines for June 17 are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com Pete Buttigieg fears that artificial intelligence may further fuel racial bias in America's already challenging credit scoring system. The 37-year-old Democratic presidential candidate was asked by a black business owner about the denial of funding during the Black Economic Alliance Forum that was held in Charleston, S.C. "I'm very worried, living in an era where more and more of this is going to be done by algorithms and by big data, that we're going to automate inequality by failing to be intentional about how some of these algorithms pick up structures and systems and attitudes and assumptions that were already racist in nature," said Buttigieg, who is the mayor of South Bend, Ind., according to Bloomberg. Several Big Tech firms have been criticized over the potential for bias in AI.