AI inevitability - can we separate bias from AI innovation?

We've been led to believe that A.I. is going to solve all of our problems - economically, socially, environmentally. It stretches credulity that it can do that when all it does is find patterns in numbers. But what it is capable of - in that limited role - is dangerous. Nevertheless, A.I.'s inevitability, predicted by industry, academics, and industry analysts, goes without question. That the issues of bias, exclusion, and disinformation are social problems that cannot be addressed with pattern-matching and curve fitting, and cannot satisfactorily be dealt with by technology is a strength, not a weakness of the inevitability narrative.