As US landlords increasingly turn to AI tools to screen tenants, housing and privacy advocates warn that opaque algorithms heighten errors and discrimination
Rebecca Burns / The Lever : Bluesky: @ethanz.bsky.social . Twitter: @acrecampaigns Bluesky: Ethan Zuckerman / @ethanz.bsky.social : The imagined risk of AI killing off humanity gets way more attention than the real harms AIs are doing here and now to marginalized people, including renters, who are generally lower income than homeowners: https://www.levernews.com/... Twitter: @acrecampaigns : “Landlords are increasingly turning to private equity-backed artificial intelligence (AI) screening programs to help them select tenants... The prevalence of incorrect.. or misleading information in such reports is increasing costs & barriers to housing.” https://www.levernews.com/...