How Airbnb Uses Artificial Intelligence To Identify Risky Renters SafeHaven.com

What does the Church of Scientology and Airbnb have in common? If you answered secret risk assessments and personality tests, then give yourself a gold star. If you have rented an Airbnb in the past six years, the odds are pretty high that you have been given a secret risk assessment and personality score. According to an Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) complaint, Airbnb's secret renter risk assessments are just as specious as the Church of Scientology's personality tests. This complaint concerns Airbnb's deployment of a risk assessment technique that assigns secret ratings to prospective renters, based on behavior traits using an opaque, proprietary algorithm.