[dekhn]

What diverse team of leading scientists from the biggest institutes in the world?

Most of the people commenting on this are second grade "ethics researchers". The authors are not ML experts. They clearly had a strong prior belief about the outcomes and were surprised by the outcome, which is fairly obvious: nearly every bit of medical data you can collect on people is ultimately correlated to self-reported race, but in a way that is not immediately perceptible to expert humans! That in its own is the important observation here. Everything else is just authors and commenters making odd statements that are in conflict with reality.

(note: my background is in biology including genetics and image analysis, and I've worked with many of the experts in this field)