Last month, my wife received a frantic call from her friend, we’ll call her Sarah. Her mortgage application had been denied—not by a human loan officer, but by an algorithm she'd never heard of. The rejection letter offered vague explanations about "creditworthiness factors" that made no sense to her. She had excellent credit, stable income, and a subst…
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