Comment by gambiting

Blind hiring can have the exact opposite effect:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-30/bilnd-recruitment-tri...

My point is - there's zero guarantee that a "logical" algorithm would be "fair". Just like if you trained an ML algorithm on the database of people currently in American prisons it would most likely conclude that black=more likely to be a criminal, which is obviously an unfair assumption to make.