Discriminatory AI explained with an example

AI is increasingly used in making decisions that impact us directly such as job applications, our credit rating, match-making on dating sites. So it is important that AI is non-discriminatory and that decisions do not favor certain races, gender, the color of skin. Discriminatory AI is a very wide subject going beyond purely technical aspects. However, to make it easily understandable, I will demonstrate how discriminatory AI looks using examples and visuals. This will give you a way to spot a discriminatory AI. Let me first establish the context of the example.