AI Doesn’t Eliminate Human Bias. It Scales It.

AI is often presented as a way to make decisions more objective: remove human judgment, the thinking goes, and you remove human bias. A growing body of research refutes this. AI systems learn from human history. They are trained on our decisions, our language, our institutions and, inevitably, our blind spots. When those systems screen candidates, allocate healthcare or evaluate employees, they can reproduce those biases at a scale and speed no individual human could match. The bigger problem...