Whether it would come complete with a full set of sparkling lights, and a couple of illuminated reindeer, is debatable. And whether it would be semi-detached or terraced might be open to question. But otherwise the algorithm that was meant to decide where new houses should be built was always likely […]
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Is an Algorithm Less Racist Than a Loan Officer?
Brennan Johnson, left, and Trevor McIntosh, who secured a mortgage for their home through Better.com, in front of their home in Wheat Ridge, Colo., August 18, 2020. (Benjamin Rasmussen/The New York Times) In 2015, Melany Anderson’s 6-year-old daughter came home from a play date and asked her mother a heartbreaking […]