{"slug": "the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live", "title": "The Hidden Cost of Where You Live", "summary": "Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering and the USC Stevens Center traced a costly, invisible bias in AI systems back to a single factor: a person's address, according to a USC Viterbi post titled \"The Hidden Cost of Where You Live.\" The finding identifies location data as the source of the bias, though the source provides no further figures or named researchers.", "body_md": "USC Viterbi and USC Stevens researchers trace a costly, invisible bias in AI systems back to a single factor: your address\n\nThe post The Hidden Cost of Where You Live appeared first on USC Viterbi | School of Engineering.", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live", "canonical_source": "https://viterbischool.usc.edu/news/2026/09/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live/", "published_at": "2026-09-02 18:24:35+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-16 19:41:38.989972+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-ethics"], "entities": ["USC Viterbi School of Engineering", "USC Stevens Center"], "also_reported_by": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/the-hidden-cost-of-where-you-live.jsonld"}}