[TeMPOraL]

ML is spitting out correlations, not an explicit causal model. If, in reality, X is only indirectly and accidentally correlated with race, but I look at the ML result and conclude the skin color has something to do with X, then the only racist element in the whole system is me.

[nnnnnande]

Agreed. That was the point I was trying to get at, albeit I might not have phrased it as clearly.