The dangers of letting algorithms make decisions for you

In 2014, Amazon developed an artificial intelligence (AI) recruitment tool that began to discriminate against female job applicants. A year later, a user of Google Photos discovered that the program was labeling his black friends as gorillas. And in 2018 it emerged that an algorithm that analyzed the risk of recidivism by a million US defendants made as many mistakes as any human being with no training in criminal justice. Decisions that were once made by human beings are now being made by AI systems. Some programs deal with hiring, others with loan approvals, medical diagnoses and even court rulings.