Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers
Date: 2017-07-01
Affected: Airbnb, Trooly
Attack vector: algorithmic-bias
Category: real-world
Severity: Critical

AI Incident Database (AIID) entry #183: Airbnb's Trustworthiness Algorithm Allegedly Banned Users without Explanation, and Discriminated against Sex Workers. Alleged deployer/developer: Airbnb, Trooly. See the linked AIID entry for full narrative, sourcing, and classification.


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