Motorists fork out £1,000 more to insure their cars if their name is Mohammed

Charitably: a possible example of a black box AI gone wrong.

From a tabloid, but this is the original source of the investigation.

Twitter user appears to confirm: https://twitter.com/annajholt/status/955470572229746688

Admiral's response: https://twitter.com/iammuhammad/status/955732231452090368

The core of Admiral's response is: You may have seen a story in the news which claims we use customers' names to price our insurance based on race.

But this is carefully worded, to neither confirm nor deny that name itself is factored into insurance quotes. That is, they are saying that they don't use name to infer race, and then discriminate on race.

But in other words: the possibility is implicitly left open that they look only at name. Which could be be arguably discriminatory due to a correlation between name and race, even though they don't explicitly attempt to derive race.

Separately, a follow-up report also asserts price being affected by email address domain name (e.g., higher for users of Hotmail than Gmail): https://www.thesun.co.uk/motors/5401901/admiral-hikes-insura...