Greg EganMar 13

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs

Scientific American
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@gregeganSF this is in line with research showing that implicit bias training doesn't actually reduce bias

edit: I'm allergic to not providing sources and broke out in hives until adding these links

-https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-problem-with-implicit-bias-training/
- https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ado5957
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK603840/

The Problem with Implicit Bias Training

It’s well motivated, but there’s little evidence that it leads to meaningful changes in behavior

Scientific American
Mar 13 at 9:28pmWeb