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.
