"What is the evidence that the source data for this 'AI' is biased because the men it came from did not want to hire women?" Nobody is saying that the biases w

"What is the evidence that the source data for this 'AI' is biased because the men it came from did not want to hire women?" Nobody is saying that the biases was caused because it was created by men who didn't want to hire women. That's a fear-mongering straw man. What people are saying is that there was bias in the training data selected, and so the algorithm exacerbated that bias. Thus, being a cautionary tale about the training data you feed to these things. " If there was an untapped market of engineers you'd better believe every tech company would be taking advantage of it." You're assuming rationality where there really is no cause to do so.