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Interesting area of development with AI and selection. However, care does need to be taken as the aggregation of data can reproduce existing bias and prejudices in decision-making. An example of this was when Amazon used AI in selection and used all pre-existing data to inform the process because of previous bias to make workers, AI concluded that male workers were automatically better than female workers and was discarding all female workers so the whole scheme had to be scrapped. While this example is about historic patterns on inequality could bias in historical patterns of financial decision-making be reproduced? And would this be necessarily what is needed looking towards the future as investing parameters may change.

Dr Susan Sayce
University of East Anglia, UK