Ancestral Bloodlines: The One-Drop Rule in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

By Dr. Carolyn Haliburton Carter, Guest ColumnistExploring the collision of race, identity, and machine logic—how data-driven technologies are reimagining old racial hierarchies in digital form. Artificial intelligence (AI) was supposed to free us from human bias. Instead, it’s learning our worst habits with frightening accuracy.Algorithms now decide who someone hires, who the police flag, who receives a loan, and even how someone defines ancestry. Controversies around race and mach