>Rentiers used to overtly discriminate against people by ethnic group until this was banned, and undoubtedly still do to the extent that they can get away with

>Rentiers used to overtly discriminate against people by ethnic group until this was banned, and undoubtedly still do to the extent that they can get away with it. But that's exactly my point. Humans are terrible and biased. The algorithm isn't racist, it just cares about providing the most accurate prediction possible. Leaving such decisions up to humans is horribly unfair and should be banned, not the algorithms. >And what happens to the people who are banned by the system? They don't cease to exist. Is that not already the case with credit ratings and applications and stuff? I'm only arguing that the existing system should be made more efficient. >Rent levels have very little to do with actual cost, it's a market-clearing price, only affected by the availability of alternatives. Rent level must be influenced by the number of bad tenants. Evicting people is difficult, and bad tenants can cause a lot of pain to the landlord. Which is why they care so much about using systems like this in the first place.