Black Loans Matter: fighting bias for AI fairness in lending

Today in the United States, African Americans continue to suffer from financial exclusion and predatory lending practices. Meanwhile the advent of machine learning in financial services offers both promise and peril as we strive to insulate artificial intelligence from our own biases baked into the historical data we need to train our algorithms.

A detailed summary of research by Mark Weber, Mikhail Yurochkin, Sherif Botros and Vanio Markov, breaking down the lack of racial justice in the current US financial system which leads to the loss of the right to financial security, along with examination of solutions.