Abuse by Algorithm – When Systems Inherit Bias

🧠 AI Processing Reality...

What happens when software becomes your judge, jury, and executioner?

From predictive policing to automated credit scoring, algorithms are increasingly making decisions once handled by humans. The problem? These systems are **trained on history** — and history is often unjust.

⚠ Biased In, Biased Out

If past arrests show racial bias, predictive policing will send more officers to those areas. If CVs with foreign names were historically ignored, AI will learn to ignore them again. If healthcare algorithms were trained mostly on white male patients, minority symptoms may be flagged as “outliers.”

💡 Made2Master Insight:

AI doesn’t fix systemic injustice. It reflects it — at scale, in silence, without shame. And worse: it removes someone to blame. **No person is held responsible when the system says, “That’s just what the data showed.”**