The fact this is often glossed over causes many problems in society. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/the-age-of-the-algori... makes some interesting and good arguments imo.

While algorithms can be biased intentionally or unintentionally, it is not true that ALL algorithms HAVE to be biased because they are created by people.

In machine learning it might be easier to unintentionally create biased algorithms. On the other hand there are domains where I would trust algorithms to be less biased than people.