Using the term 'bias' has certain political motivations behind it. It's not about the term being technically untrue as it is about the term being non-neutral. For instance, here are some definitions of 'bias' I just grabbed from American Heritage:
"A preference or an inclination, especially one that inhibits impartial judgment."
"An unfair act or policy stemming from prejudice."
"A statistical sampling or testing error caused by systematically favoring some outcomes over others."
The ML model does not have a preference, inclination, or prejudice relating to interns, except insofar as we anthropomorphize it to have them. What does using a word suggesting that add?
A more neutral account of what's going on is along the lines: It's easy to accidentally train ML models so that they will make systematic errors. (Among those errors is the possibility for it to exhibit behavior resembling prejudice.)