> But nowadays it’s not existing algorithms but rather data driving the decisions. There are different flavours of Machine Learning algorithms. You are referri

> But nowadays it’s not existing algorithms but rather data driving the decisions. There are different flavours of Machine Learning algorithms. You are referring to one of those where the learned representations are created from raw data. There are other flavours where algorithm designers manually input the important aspects of the representation. For example, a popular credit scoring agency where I live - uses the postcode as an input. The postcode in some cities is directly correlated to race and ethnicity. The broader point is that there exists various aspects that drive bias and that goes beyond data.