The race problem with AI: 'Machines are learning to be racist'

Artificial intelligence (AI) is already deeply embedded in so many areas of our lives. Society's reliance on AI is set to increase at a pace that is hard to comprehend. AI isn't the kind of technology that is confined to futuristic science fiction movies – the robots you've seen on the big screen that learn how to think, feel, fall in love, and subsequently take over humanity. No, AI right now is much less dramatic and often much harder to identify. Artificial intelligence is simply machine learning.