Unethical AI unfairly impacts protected classes - and everybody else as well

There are well-documented examples of AI systems making decisions that affect protected classes, such as housing assistance or unemployment benefits. AI can be used to screen resumes; banks apply AI models to grant individual consumers credit and set interest rates for them. Many small decisions, taken together, can have large effects, such as: AI-driven price discrimination could lead to certain groups in a society consistently paying more. But are there AI applications today that affect everyone, no matter their "class"? As I mentioned earlier, we are shifting our AI Ethics courses to more practical, useful techniques.