Advancing Equality: Harnessing Generative AI to Combat Systemic Racism

Abstract

Systemic racism, an issue deeply entrenched in various sectors of American society, continues to cast a shadow over the nation's progress towards equality and justice. This paper showcases some of generative artificial intelligence (AI) potential to identify racial bias and combat structural barriers that perpetuate racial discrimination in the United States. Specifically, three research groups affiliated with MIT's Initiative on Combatting Systemic Racism (ICSR) present case study applications that utilize generative AI in innovative approaches against the structural foundations of racism in policing, healthcare, and housing.