Last month, Microsoft decided to replace all of the human editors who curate stories for the company’s MSN News service with algorithms that could do the same work.
Less than a week later, however, the robot editors had embroiled the company in a race row after illustrating a story about the Little Mix singer Jade Thirlwall with a picture of her bandmate Leigh-Anne Pinnock, the only other mixed-race member of the group. The algorithms then attempted to post a story about their own error, forcing the few remaining human editors to intervene.
