AI in Housing and Benefits: Automating Discrimination, Enhancing Surveillance, and Scaling Bias

Time: 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm EDT

Date: Thursday, June 27, 2024

AI and algorithmic decision systems impact every sphere of life, including in access to housing and public benefits. In this webinar, expert speakers and advocates will share what attorneys need to know about algorithmic decision systems that can curtail access to rental housing and homeownership, accelerate evictions, and increase surveillance and criminalization of people living in public housing.

Our guest experts will discuss the increasing reliance of state and federal social services agencies on automated fraud detection systems, eligibility screening and assessment tools, and benefits determinations systems that disproportionately harm disabled and elderly people. Experts will describe the range of tools in use, the discriminatory impact they can have, and the strategies used to challenge discrimination and bias in litigation, policymaking, and advocacy.

Speakers:

• Ariana Aboulafia – Policy Counsel, Disability Rights in Technology Policy, Center for Democracy and Technology
• Kevin De Liban – Founder, Techtonic Justice
• Sateesh Nori – Adjunct Clinical Professor of Law, Eviction Defense and Tenant Protection Externship – The Legal Aid Society, New York University School of Law; Executive Director, JustFix
• Juyoun Han – Partner, Artificial Intelligence Fairness and Data Privacy Practice Group, Eisenberg & Baum LLP
• Lydia X. Z. Brown (Moderator) – Director of Public Policy, National Disability Institute