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> people control the genes they are looking for. Algorithms just find people according to given parameters, they are not racist.

Uuuh, while your algorithm isn't racist, if a person is using an algorithm to be racist, then it could be concluded that what is happening is... racism.

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Computers generally cannot solve for the user’s bad intentions. Of course companies do try, and that’s either a value add or a regulatory requirement. Stamping out racism by making it impossible to carry out racist ideas seems like a losing strategy.

Algorithms are not racist but they might very well be biased, intentionally or not. As a programmer I make assumptions every time I write code and I rarely have 100% insight into the full implications of that code.

Sometimes I generate machine learning (ML) solutions and then this holds more true than ever. All the best (least biased) matchmaking solutions will be ML, as well as all the worst (most biased).

Also, matching for the best DNA/RNA/gene expression match, wouldn't that just separate us into different species of humans?

> Uuuh, while your algorithm isn't racist, if a person is using an algorithm to be racist, then it could be concluded that what is happening is... racism.

This is an extremely weak "argument".

Practically, anything can be used as a murder weapon by a murderer. Then "what is happening is ..." murder.

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