Machine learning is almost magical in that way: complicated, contextual evaluations of things can be delegated to a black box, and since there's no longer a hum

Machine learning is almost magical in that way: complicated, contextual evaluations of things can be delegated to a black box, and since there's no longer a human people can get angry at for a contested decision, emotions aren't as high and the company can just shrug its shoulders at that silly little computer. It's a cheap way to abdicate moral and social responsibility. It's one reason that AI ethics is a broader field than people worrying about the existential risk of AGI breakout.