''Flagging sensitive variables and their proxies to prevent discriminatory lending practices is how they should implement Salesforce's Trusted AI Principle of Transparency. Transparency is one of the Trusted AI Principles that states that AI systems should be designed and developed with respect for clarity and openness in how they work and why they make certain decisions. Transparency also means that AI users should be able to access relevant information and documentation about the AI systems they interact with. Flagging sensitive variables and their proxies means identifying and marking variables that can potentially cause discrimination or unfair treatment based on a person's identity or characteristics, such as age, gender, race, income, or credit score. Flagging sensitive variables and their proxies can help implement Transparency by allowing users to understand and evaluate the data used or generated by AI systems.''

''A potential outcome of using poor-quality data in AI applications is that AI models may produce biased or erroneous results. Poor-quality data means that the data is inaccurate, incomplete, inconsistent, irrelevant, or outdated for the AI task. Poor-quality data can affect the performance and reliability of AI models, as they may not have enough or correct information to learn from or make accurate predictions. Poor-quality data can also introduce or exacerbate biases or errors in AI models, such as human bias, societal bias, confirmation bias, or overfitting or underfitting.''

''Societal bias is the type of bias that imposes a system's values on others. Societal bias is a type of bias that reflects the assumptions, norms, or values of a specific society or culture. Societal bias can affect the fairness and ethics of AI systems, as they may affect how different groups or domains are perceived, treated, or represented by AI systems. For example, societal bias can occur when AI systems impose a system's values on others, such as using Western standards of beauty or success to judge or rank people from other cultures.''

Poor data quality significantly impacts the performance of predictive and generative AI models by leading to inaccurate and unreliable results. Factors such as incomplete data, incorrect data, or poorly formatted data can mislead AI models during the learning phase, causing them to make incorrect assumptions, learn inappropriate patterns, or generalize poorly to new data. This inaccuracy can be detrimental in applications where precision is critical, such as in predictive analytics for sales forecasting or customer behavior analysis. Salesforce emphasizes the importance of data quality for AI model effectiveness in their AI best practices guide, which can be reviewed on Salesforce AI Best Practices.

''A picklist field type should be used to ensure data quality for capturing an order's destination country. A picklist field type allows the user to select one or more predefined values from a list. A picklist field type can ensure data quality by enforcing consistency, accuracy, and completeness of the data values.''