AOC Is Right: Algorithms Will Always Be Biased As Long As There's Systemic Racism in This Country

At a New York event celebrating the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr. held in the Riverside Church last week, Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez sparked a small firestorm when she argued that algorithms reflect human bias. "Algorithms are still made by human beings, and those algorithms are still pegged to basic human assumptions," she said. And if you don't fix the bias, then you are just automating the bias." "Socialist Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) claims that algorithms, which are driven by math, are racist," replied Daily Wire reporter Ryan Saavedra, kicking off the latest cycle of online conservative handwringing about something AOC has said. Ocasio-Cortez was right, though, and what she said should not be that controversial.