Hello, tech editor Alexei Oreskovic here. We're learning more about AI's shortcomings and limitations as the technology becomes ingrained in our everyday lives. Just ask former Trump consigliere Michael Cohen, whose lawyers relied on generative AI to submit legal filings that were filled with citations of nonexistent cases that were "hallucinated" by the AI.
But one of AI's biggest flaws has less to do with the technology than it does with ourselves. The biases that cause AI systems to make false assumptions about certain groups of people or to misidentify people of color in facial recognition is essentially a reflection of the biases prevalent in society. An AI model is only as good as the data it's fed, and the data that's produced by our society is far from perfect.
