Artificial intelligence networks and the future of deep learning

Artificial intelligence has a bias problem and it's completely our fault. Last week, Amazon decided to ditch the secret AI tool it was using to source new recruits when it discovered their system was actively favouring male over female candidates. It transpires their network had been trained to vet applicants by observing patterns in CVs submitted over a 10-year period and – as one would expect given the perpetuating male dominance across the tech industry – the vast majority of those applications came from men. This caused the AI to perceive male candidates as preferable, going so far as to actively penalise CVs that even mentioned women. Does this infer that the AI was in some way gender biased?