The racism of technology – and why driverless cars could be the most dangerous example yet

There is a rule for dealing with computers: garbage in, garbage out. Put the wrong number of zeroes in your Excel spreadsheet and it will unthinkingly pay your staff pennies on the pound; train a self-driving car to recognise human figures by showing it millions of pictures of white people, and it might struggle to identify pedestrians of other races.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/shortcuts/2019/mar/13/driverless-cars-racist