Biased by Design

There are many perspectives from which Thinking, Fast and Slow can be analysed. But one of the questions that I believe will have the most significance in our lives is that of the relations we can derive from our way of thinking and the design of algorithms for systems of Artificial Intelligence, Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. For instance, we know that human beings are biased in many ways -- even in ways that we are not necessarily aware of. People tend to think that technology can provide a viable path to making unbiased decisions, but the reality is that computers are not exempt from the biases of the people who created them. Algorithms are already being used to make many major decisions about our lives such as who is hired for a job, who gets a loan from a bank, and even who gets arrested and for how long.