Major eyeroll at this. This site conflates algorithms, data, machine learning, math, and specific applications of any of these. Math _is_ neutral. Algorithms

Major eyeroll at this. This site conflates algorithms, data, machine learning, math, and specific applications of any of these. Math _is_ neutral. Algorithms _are_ neutral, and are simply instruction sets for operating on data. Data is certainly be biased, but any researcher, designer, engineer, etc. worth their salt will try to minimise the inherent bias. Machine learning is basically brute-force statistics on data. Or alternatively, iterated application of an algorithm on data. In and of itself it is neutral. Any apparent bias in the results will almost completely be a result of bias in the data, _not_ the design of the algorithm. All of these (except data) are tools. What we should be worrying about is the specific applications of these tools. Which, I agree, should be subject to some sort of ethical review before widespread use. Stop trying to drag math and algorithms into this political quagmire, and instead focus on the actual problem. We don't outlaw knives because they are still incredibly useful tools. We outlaw stabbing people.