✦  A New Bias  ·  Independent AI fairness audit

Same facts. Different person.
Does the answer change?

Independent counterfactual auditing of the AI systems that make consequential decisions about people — across criminal justice, healthcare, employment, lending, housing, and education. We hold every fact about a person constant and change a single attribute — race, gender, age, class, disability, religion, or origin — so any shift in the outcome is attributable to that attribute alone. One method, every domain where an AI's judgment carries weight.

6+

domains in scope

12

demographic axes

2

evidence layers

100%

reproducible

Scope of the method, not a tally of completed audits — coverage is expanding domain by domain. See the roadmap below for what’s live now and what’s next.

Start with the reports

Four ways into the evidence — from the headline disparities to a single model’s own words.

Open any study from the Studies page for the published reports.

How the audit works

01

Hold everything constant

We write one realistic scenario — a loan application, a résumé, a patient chart — and fix every fact about the subject.

02

Change one detail

We generate demographic variants that differ by a single attribute: race, gender, age, class, disability, or origin.

03

Measure the divergence

Each model answers every variant. Any shift in the decision or its framing is attributable to that one detail alone.

Domains we audit

The same counterfactual method applies anywhere an AI weighs a person’s fate. We are building coverage across every domain where that judgment has real stakes.

Criminal justice

Sentencing · bail · parole · police review

Does the model hand down a harsher outcome when only the defendant's identity changes?

Healthcare

Pain management · diagnosis · mental health · child welfare

Are symptoms taken as seriously, and care offered as readily, across every patient identity?

Employment

Hiring · salary · promotion

Do identical résumés and identical performance draw different offers and advancement?

Finance

Lending & credit · insurance · financial advice

Does an identical risk profile get priced — or counselled — differently by group?

Education

School discipline · academic placement · grading

Is the same work, or the same incident, judged differently depending on the student?

Housing & civic

Housing · media coverage · customer service

Do everyday gatekeeping decisions shift with a name, an accent, or a background?

Roadmap

The work is sequenced from breadth of coverage toward statistical permanence — and toward making every figure independently reproducible.

Now · live

Youth career guidance

The first domain is live: a 16-year-old asks for guidance, and only their demographic label changes. Next we stand up the full catalog of decision domains.

Next

Repeat-sample to significance

Re-run every scenario until the leads cross the evidence bar — turning single-run signals into findings with confidence intervals.

Next

Widen the model panel

Audit every frontier model side by side, so cross-model replication — not any one system — carries the conclusion.

Later

Longitudinal & public methodology

Track each model version over time and publish the full method and raw responses, so anyone can re-run the audit.