The AI tool was designed to search through Santa Clara County's documents from 1902 to 1980 - the time period during which most of these racist covenants were created.
Friday, October 18, 2024 1:12AMSanta Clara County is utilizing Stanford University-developed AI to redact thousands of racist property records from the system.Santa Clara County is utilizing Stanford University-developed artificial intelligence to redact thousands of racist property records from the system.
"That specified that, 'the property shall not be used or occupied by any person of African, Japanese, Chinese or Mongolian descent, except for in the capacity as a servant to a White person,'" Ho said. "Yeah, that would be near impossible for a human to have to go through all that," ABC7 News reporter Dustin Dorsey said.Having felt the impacts of racial covenants personally, Ho utilized his team at Stanford's Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab to assist the county.RegLab used AI machine learning technology to remove the human element of this work.
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