The Preamble

The Preamble

We’re Teaching More Than We Realize

The technology we’re building is learning from us.

Nov 02, 2025
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And some of what it’s learned is uncomfortable. New research shows that when tech companies cleaned up the obvious racism in AI, they didn’t eliminate its bias. They just trained it to conceal it better.

AI learned to “sound” polite while making the same discriminatory decisions about jobs, healthcare, and criminal sentencing.

AI Is Hiding Its Racism

Then,…

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