From The Wall Street Journal: Robots are already deciding who goes to rehab and who goes to jail

Artificial intelligences are already out in the world playing a role in our decisions. In some cases, they're going one step further and making decisions for us. Increasingly, companies, government agencies, and the police are relying on algorithms to make decisions and allocate resources. Many people believe that this is a good development, because it means objective and informed decisions made by disinterested systems. However, as this podcast explains, there is plenty of bias in our AIs, and the decisions they make are often just as prejudiced as human decisions would be.