Thank you.
While AI, machine learning and algorithmic technologies appear to be very futuristic, very innovative and brand new, they're based on data that has been gathered over years and decades, reflecting things like institutional biases, racism and sexism.
This data doesn't come from nowhere. It comes from these institutions that have engaged, for example, in over-policing certain communities. Processes like over-policing then produce datasets that make a criminal look a certain way, when we know that doesn't actually reflect reality. These are the institutional ways in which they see populations.
Those datasets are then the very datasets on which AI and machine learning learn and they learn what the world is. So rather than being innovative and futuristic, AI, machine learning and algorithmic processes are actually very conservative and very old-fashioned, and they are perpetuating the biases that we, as a society, ought to figure out how to step forward and get past.