Why Removing Sensitive Features Doesn’t Prevent Bias in Machine Learning Models

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This Image is Generated via AI Machine Learning models are making high stakes decision about people’s lives everyday on who gets a loan, who gets free housing, and who advances in a hiring process. The organizations deploying these models are aware of the risk of discrimination and are taking steps to prevent it. In order to overcome this challenge they remove all protected attributes including race, gender and martial status from the model