I feel like this is a very disingenuous way to put this issue. It's not that people write a program that actually have lines of code like this in them but rathe

I feel like this is a very disingenuous way to put this issue. It's not that people write a program that actually have lines of code like this in them but rather machine learning algorithms operate on our current reality rather than any ideal. With few exceptions a pregnant employee is worse than a non pregnant one so if all employee data is fed into a nice ML black box with all things being equal it's going to start firing the pregnant ones.