THE 21st CENTURY ISN’T TURNING OUT AS I HAD HOPED: Google Didn’t Invent This Racial Double Standard, but It Learned It.

Another medical journal declares that “There is no good clinical reason for choosing a white doctor rather than a doctor from an ethnic minority.” And these are the types of sources that Google is drawing on for its AI responses to questions like the ones I asked.

Honestly, I’m not sure why anybody would limit the doctors from whom they receive care to certain ethnicities, but we shouldn’t see such a disparity in the responses. It’s easy to simply dismiss it as bias on Google’s end, and that’s a big part of the problem. But what we also see is that medical academia is the source of heavy bias that Google is drawing from.

Google didn’t invent this double standard. It simply repeated what influential voices in medical academia have already decided: that the same preference can be perfectly reasonable or potentially racist depending on who’s expressing it. And when that sort of thinking becomes the foundation for the information Americans receive, the problem goes well beyond a biased search result.

Equal treatment shouldn’t come with a racial exemption.

Still though, it’s Google, so it could always be much has worse: Google’s AI Debacle. Why is Google creating pro-Nazi and pro-Confederate propaganda?