AI-augmented applications have been screwing people for years now -- credit ratings, redlining, crime "prediction" and so much more that has been cruelest to the non-white and the poor.
So it's fair to wonder whether the current fury stems from white, middle-class people's realization that AI's opaque, predatory abuses are coming for them, too.
As insurers refuse to write new homeowners insurance policies in California, a real estate crash is on the way.
If you can't get insurance, you can't get a mortgage. It's that simple.
Climate change will bankrupt people, businesses, communities, states, and nations.
https://www.sfchronicle.com/california/article/insurance-allstate-fires-18130622.php
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