Dark grey area of computer confusion

Computers are as bad as human beings when it comes to colourism. Amazon is testing new facial recognition software for a surveillance system, but dark-skinned women, according to a study by MIT, are being misidentified as men. The study found that the gender of lighter-skinned women was misidentified by the computer about 7% of the time, whereas 31% of darker-skinned women were incorrectly categorised as male