Two things worth pointing out (side-stepping the political/moral issues):

• UI has a profound impact on how/what users decide when using a program
• Cathy O’Neil has written several articles and a book on how we need the algorithms in such decisions to be transparent (and refinable)

It’s only AI in-so-much as XKCD 221 is AI…

int getRandomNumber() {
    return 4; // chosen by fair dice roll
                  // guaranteed to be random
}