[Analemma_]

Everything you said is true, but I think it is dangerously missing the point.

Yes, everyone "in the know" knows that there's no such thing as "AI" right now, and what we actually have are just statistical models with "bias in, bias out". To us, this news is not surprising.

But that's not how these algorithms are being marketed, hyped, and sold, or how their decisions are being justified. Right now there's a lot of people selling "AI" as an unbiased and better decision-maker than humans. Where this gets really bad is when they start justifying the biased decisions of the machines as, "it's an AI program, so this can't be bias: whatever icky things it decided must be the truth!". That's the real worry here: when the marketing- and hence the policy- doesn't match the reality, and starts amplifying and reinforcing the very problems it was supposed to solve.