A conversation with my neighbor's kid about his homework made me think about AI bias.

I was helping him with a history project in his kitchen last month. He asked his smart speaker a question about a famous inventor, and the answer only mentioned a man. The kid pointed at it and said, 'But my book says a lady helped too. Why doesn't it know?' It was a simple moment, but it showed me how these tools can quietly shape what we think is true. Has anyone else seen a small, real-world example of AI leaving important information out?

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the_susan7d ago

That map thing with @charles640's friend is wild. Makes you wonder what other old data is still baked into these systems, steering people wrong without anyone knowing.

mark_ward7d ago

My smart fridge kept listing milk as out of stock. The sensor was just dusty, so it was working off old assumptions.

charles6407d ago

My friend's map app kept routing her through a rough part of town. Turns out it was skipping a perfectly good bridge because its data said it was closed for construction, like, five years ago.