Olin MBA alum shines light on AI in housing market

  • March 25, 2025
  • By WashU Olin Business School
  • 1 minute read
Vanessa Perry

The reach of artificial intelligence into our daily lives includes its use in determining our financial futures, affecting such monumental decisions such as who should get a home mortgage.

Vanessa Perry, MBA 1990, believes that this potential can be a two-edged sword: Its models may incorporate existing inequities in the market, or provide new, more objective ways of looking at potential borrowers.

With AI, there’s a broader range of data that can be incorporated. You don’t have to have a credit score, a credit card or a car loan, or anything that would bring you into the traditional credit system.

—Vanessa Perry

Perry, interim dean, vice dean for strategy, and professor of public policy and public administration, marketing, and strategic management at George Washington University School of Business, shared her expertise with the U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development in a hearing devoted to artificial intelligence and housing last year.

Learn more about Perry’s views on the peril and promise of AI in the housing market in this article from WashU Magazine.

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