Artificial Intelligence Has a Racism Issue

It's long been thought that robots equipped with artificial intelligence would be the cold, purely objective counterpart to humans' emotional subjectivity. Unfortunately, it would seem that many of our imperfections have found their way into the machines. It turns out that these A.I. and machine-learning tools can have blind spots when it comes to women and minorities. This is especially concerning, considering that many companies, governmental organizations, and even hospitals are using machine learning and other A.I. tools to help with everything from preventing and treating injuries and diseases to predicting creditworthiness for loan applicants. These racial and gender biases have manifested in a variety of ways.