@Tfmonkey Listening to one of your shows, I do have something I should bring up regarding a comment on the "racist AI" that could not facially recognize a black driver's face. I have some experience with programming and dealing with contrasting light/dark spots, and I think that the issue is more likely to be that his skin being darker made it more difficult to have the facial recognition software detect parts of his face than it being "black people all look alike." When you are dealing with any sensors that rely on light, having anything be darker (including skin) will inherently limit how effective the AI will be at working with the data. There is just going to be less to work with when the light itself is going to respond differently to darker skin, and thus limit how much the hardware can sense light/dark areas, thus limiting what the software will have to work with.

Yes, there will still be people complaining about "racist AI" because of this issue, but I guarantee that they do not have any answers to solving this issue. You just cannot get past the reality that black people's darker skin will make it more difficult for detecting differences in light/dark areas. Theoretically more advanced hardware could bridge the gap, but I doubt you are going to get that from the standard smart phone.