As artificial intelligence (AI) gets more deeply enmeshed with human lives, the question emerges time and again around the extent to which AI has superior capabilities than human intelligence and skills. While AI has displayed immense potential to be superior to skills possessed by humans in certain sectors, the fact remains that AI itself adheres to human behaviour and thinking. There is a general misplaced belief that technology and AI are neutral and objective. It is precisely this misperception that allows AI to perpetuate racial discrimination.