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Zestimate and Fairness: Can Biased Algorithms Improve Equity?

Yan Huang reveals how Zillow's Zestimate, despite occasional algorithmic bias and varying accuracy across neighborhoods, benefits both buyers and sellers in underserved areas by reducing market uncertainty and improving transaction outcomes, even potentially lessening existing inequality compared to human-only systems.

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Building AI Fairness by Reducing Algorithmic Bias

Emily Diana explores algorithmic bias in machine learning and outlines three intervention stages: pre-processing, in-processing, and post-processing to mitigate algorithmic discrimination.

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The Ethical Challenges of AI Agents

Companies using AI agents should develop and implement ethical standards for transparency, user education, and accountability and embrace responsibility for its impact.