OpenAI’s chatbot shows racial bias in advising home buyers and renters

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.”

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