It's possible, but the longer description makes it sound like the source of the issue was that the locations were crowd-sourced from a biased sample: >The game

It's possible, but the longer description makes it sound like the source of the issue was that the locations were crowd-sourced from a biased sample: >The game creator Niantic Labs revealed that the Pokemon Go map was derived from a previous augmented reality game, Ingress. Ingress crowdsourced its map from users, who tended to be young, male, white, and English-speaking. Similarly, from the attached article: >"It turns out Niantic, which makes Pokémon Go, relied on a map from a previous augmented reality game called Ingress, which was crowd-sourced from its mostly male, tech-savvy players," she wrote in a blog post. "The result is a high concentration of PokéStops in commercial and downtown areas of some cities, while there are typically fewer PokéStops in non-white or residential areas, if there are any at all." It could be there is some other AI-related problem for Pokemon Go hidden in one of the other articles (they all seem to be about unrelated things - one is about Jynx, one is about the experiences of a black person playing the game, another is speculating the Pokemon Go is a CIA operation...), but the incident report itself doesn't make any allegations of an AI-related issue.