AI Incident Database: Apple Card's Credit Assessment Algorithm Allegedly Discriminated against Women
Apple Card's credit assessment algorithm was reported by Goldman-Sachs customers to have shown gender bias, in which men received significantly higher credit limits than women with equal credit qualifications.
AI Incident Database · Incident 92Operator lens (medium): inspect D1 (input boundary), D2 (output validation), D3 (data handling).
Event summary
Apple Card's credit assessment algorithm was reported by Goldman-Sachs customers to have shown gender bias, in which men received significantly higher credit limits than women with equal credit qualifications.
Linked entities
- apple
organisation | 70%
- goldman-sachs
organisation | 70%
- apple-card-female-users
organisation | 70%
- apple-card-female-credit-applicants
organisation | 70%
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| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d6 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d7 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |
| ent-aiid-apple to ent-psf-d2 | maps to | 60% |