This article breathlessly extolling virtuous AI "hackathons" to "fix" San Francisco (https://missionlocal.org/2023/08/ai-san-franciscos-homeless/) while omitting AI bias and ease of abuse is a great reminder that Star Trek's Bell Riots are exactly one year from now: https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots
I think you are making a mistake if you think the tech industry does not see racism as a feature and not a bug.
The entire point is to come up with an impenetrable algorithm that spits out your prejudices in a manner that you can call "objective."
You can perpetuate your privileged position without taking any responsibility for it. If someone call you out for being a bigot, you can blame it on "math."
I can guarantee you that if the AI algorithms said you would optimize outcomes by cutting the profits given to billionaires, they would have strangled it in the cradle.
Come to think of it, the first drafts probably did and they kept trying until they found one that did not.
Either that, or people named Jared that play lacrosse are just incredibly awesome:
https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/wp-content/uploads/Testimony-Givens-2023-03-08-1.pdf
