Machine learning systems are only as biased as their training data and their construction. It doesn&#x27;t even have to be overt. Like when Google Photos tagged photos of African-American users as gorillas[1] -- sure, the machine learning algorithm wasn&#x27;t racist in any recognizable sense, but it reflected the bias of the training data, which didn&#x27;t have enough African-American people in it to let the algorithm learn about them.<p>1) <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;7&#x2F;1&#x2F;8880363&#x2F;google-apologizes-photos-app-tags-two-black-people-gorillas" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.theverge.com&#x2F;2015&#x2F;7&#x2F;1&#x2F;8880363&#x2F;google-apologizes-p...</a>