The Google settlement [1] is not an AI story in the conventional sense — no algorithm is named as the discriminating agent. But it is an AI story in the structural sense that matters more: the organization that shapes training data priorities, defines fairness benchmarks, and deploys AI tools at global scale was simultaneously maintaining racially discriminatory hiring and pay practices. Those two facts do not sit in separate rooms. The people who decided which problems AI should solve, which datasets were representative, and which fairness metrics were good enough…