How Can Artificial Intelligence Reinforce Existing Human Biases?

Scientists are working hard to enable artificial intelligence (AI) to identify and reduce the impact of human biases. Artificial intelligence algorithms are meant to replicate the working mechanism of the human brain for optimizing organizational activities. Unfortunately, while we have been able to get closer to actually recreating human intelligence artificially, AI also displays another distinctively human trait- prejudice against someone based on their race, ethnicity or gender. Bias in AI is not exactly a novel concept. Examples of biased algorithms in healthcare, law enforcement and recruitment industries have been uncovered recently as well as in the past.