More precisely, it's that AI trained on data from a country where structural racism is present will bake that structural racism in, and your stemlords (1) don't see it because they never seriously engaged with anything besides math and science and (2) they badly want to believe the sci-fi future that will solve everything is right around the corner.
This is like the hiring AI that Amazon trained on all the existing employees and then the AI proceeded to filter out anyone who wasn't a white male
"BuT aI cAnT bE RaCiSt" screams the techbro somehow not realising its racist tech bros that make the racist AI.
More precisely, it's that AI trained on data from a country where structural racism is present will bake that structural racism in, and your stemlords (1) don't see it because they never seriously engaged with anything besides math and science and (2) they badly want to believe the sci-fi future that will solve everything is right around the corner.