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Racial bias does exist in ML based image recognition tools, there's a plethora of evidence to show that.

There are companies selling products which screen hiring candidates based on video of them talking. Ostensibly for determining personality traits or whatever. So yes, this literally exists in hiring.

While image processing dark skin may not be germane to AIs doing hiring, the idea that unintentional discrimination from ML models could occur in the context of hiring is certainly worth considering and I believe it's the entire point of the technical assistance document released today.

Mate. you ever hear about amazon's hiring ai?