Robot journalist accused of racism

Shortly after Microsoft announced it was laying off scores of journalists across its news divisions and replacing them with news-skimming artificial intelligence, it's already in hot water after a clear example of racial algorithmic bias. The algorithm doesn't do any original reporting. Instead, it finds articles on the internet and populates MSN with them. Recently, it confused two women of color from the band Little Mix with each other, The Guardian reports, attaching an image of Leigh-Anne Pinnock to an article about singer Jade Thirlwall. It's an unfortunate illustration of how racism continues to persist within AI algorithms, which are notoriously bad at recognizing people of color.