How AI can remove bias from decision-making

The UK government recently published a review of algorithmic bias – an important and even crucial subject as ever more decision-making progresses from wetware to silicon. However, it would have been useful if they'd understood what Gary Becker told us all about discrimination itself – work for which he won the Nobel prize for economics. Almost all the things they are worrying about solve themselves within his logical structure. First though, a linguistic structure – let's examine the difference between algorithms and artificial intelligence (AI). An algo doesn't have to be encoded at all, it's a set of rules by which to make a decision – usually, almost always, derived from the current methods by which we make such decisions, just formalised or even coded.