Desmond Upton Patton, associate professor of sociology at Columbia University. Color me un-surprised.
Note the sociology jargon here and the PRESUMPTION OF RACISM; "The people involved in defining the problem approach it from a biased lens. It also reaches down into how we categorize the data, and how the AI tools are created. What is missing is racial inclusivity into who gets to develop AI tools."
A biased lens? An inanimate object can be biased?
Surprise! This guy is a sociology professor who knows nothing about engineering. Any tech company of any size is desperate to hire minorities and women into their engineering departments, which are overwhelmingly white male. Guess what! The candidates aren't out there! (Even white male candidates are scarce; nobody, including white males, wants to study hard at tough subjects to get into jobs that just get offshored to India. Much easier to study some fluff subject for four years and get an MBA, so you can step directly into management.)
What has Professor Patton done lately to encourage black kids to go into computer science or electrical engineering? That's right: nothing! If the candidates aren't out there, they can't be hired, professor.
By the way, Professor, what you're describing is not "racism" it's "buggy software," and minority candidates will write buggy software also, because they're human beings and software is hard.