Monday, June 30, 2025

Community Imperative: AI’s Impact on the Racial Wealth Gap June 2025

 Professor Pappoe Awarded Grant to Explore AI’s Impact on the Racial Wealth Gap

Professor Yvette Pappoe has been awarded a research grant by the Center for Civil Rights & Technology’s Leadership Conference Education Fund to explore how artificial intelligence (AI) is both exacerbating and potentially mitigating the racial wealth gap. In collaboration with Professor Nadiyah Humber (University of Connecticut School of Law), the project will examine the role of AI across two critical systems: 

       housing and employment. Specifically, the research will analyze how AI is being deployed in tenant screening, mortgage underwriting, and home appraisals, as well as in hiring, job displacement, and the deskilling or upskilling of labor. With credit and financial inclusion as a cross-cutting theme, the study aims to illuminate how AI systems can either reinforce or disrupt structural barriers to wealth for communities of color.

 

 



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