As a white man in America with no discernible regional accent, I can simply assume that modern consumer technologies -- virtual assistants like Siri, Alexa or Assistant, and my phones' camera -- will work seamlessly out of the box. I assume this because, well, they do. That's namely because the nerds who design and program these devices overwhelmingly both look and sound just like me -- if even a little whiter. Folks with more melanin in their skin and extra twang on their tongue don't enjoy that same privilege. Tomorrow's chatbots and visual AIs will only serve to exacerbate this bias unless steps are taken today to ensure a benchmark standard of fairness and equitable behavior from these systems.