Politico March 19, 2025
With help from Anthony Adragna
A long-running bipartisan effort to ensure fairness in computer decisionmaking could become collateral damage in the Trump administration’s all-fronts war on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) and other “woke” policies.
For years, AI experts and civil rights advocates have been worried about the potential for computer algorithms to make biased decisions. There are cases going as far back as 2000 alleging that automated decision-making systems could lead to inequity in areas from hiring practices to mortgage lending decisions. The unfairness can be almost totally invisible, if their underlying algorithms and training data had biases baked in.
The push for a regulatory fix has been largely nonpartisan: Algorithmic biases can harm people of any background,...
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