How Governments Could Influence AI
Whenever you ask AI a question, what comes back isn't always neutral. In some cases, the information that guides an AI response could be manipulated. As more people look to AI for quick answers, new research from College of Arts and Sciences sociologist Hannah Waight suggests you could get a different response depending on which language you use.
“People often talk about AI as if it learns from the internet in some neutral way,” Waight said. “It doesn’t. It learns from information environments that have already been shaped by institutions and power, and those environments can leave measurable traces in what models say."
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