I would respectfully disagree. The builder of the AI should be trained in recognizing that his discrimination machine can be used for good and for bad. If the creation shows racist tendencies, it's an outcome of the machine but a function of the (lack of) quality in the modeller. If the end result is racism, I would like to be able to point to the creator of the AI (a human) not a piece of software.
More concrete: government AI shouldn't use things like names, zipcode demographics (at least those strongly to those characteristics we think discrimination = racism) and pictures of humans in their models. Why? Because it's pretty much impossible to control your model for racist tendencies one you start there. It's in the ethics of the creator of the model to point that out and just don't do it. If you do, and all people whose name start with an M (for Mohammed) get a different category, racist is the right term IMHO.
More concrete: government AI shouldn't use things like names, zipcode demographics (at least those strongly to those characteristics we think discrimination = racism) and pictures of humans in their models. Why? Because it's pretty much impossible to control your model for racist tendencies one you start there. It's in the ethics of the creator of the model to point that out and just don't do it. If you do, and all people whose name start with an M (for Mohammed) get a different category, racist is the right term IMHO.