AI models could reinforce housing discrimination in relatively segregated cities like New York Robert Quinlan/Alamy
An AI chatbot often recommends neighbourhoods to potential home buyers and renters based on race. This may be a reflection of bias stemming from generations of US housing discrimination.
“A lot of people think that generative AI and large language models are the emerging technologies of the future,” says Eric Liu at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “But of course they’re being trained on data from the past.”
Liu and…
