I mean, kind of. If you develop an algorithm and the user you're picturing in your mind looks like you, talks like you, and lives like you do you're embedding a

I mean, kind of. If you develop an algorithm and the user you're picturing in your mind looks like you, talks like you, and lives like you do you're embedding all kind of gender-related, racial, and socioeconomic biases. The most famous example being automatic soap dispensers that don't detect black hands[1]. Now combine that fact with the demographics of Silicon Valley companies and you get a recipe for products and algorithms that are "fair" only if you match a set of implicit criteria. None of this is intentionally malevolent, just a product of hubris and "move fast and break things". [1] https://reporter.rit.edu/tech/bigotry-encoded-racial-bias-technology https://reporter.rit.edu/tech/bigotry-encoded-racial-bias-te...