Generative AI tools can produce fabricated information that appears authentic—a problem widely known as “hallucination”
This surprised me because I thought AI was more advanced than this, and I didn’t think it could or would make up information while making it seem completely real. This further shows why it is important to fact-check information from AI, especially when the information is used for something important.
These technology tools can generate content that’s skewed or misleading
This was something that stood out to me because I did not know that AI could create information that is biased or misleading. I think that this is important to know because it shows us that we shouldn’t automatically believe everything AI tells us. We should check the information before we use it or believe it.
It happens to everyone all of the time.
This is what surprised me the most in this article because I did not know that implicit bias was something that happens to everyone. I used to think that bias was something that only certain people had, but now I know that our thoughts and decisions can be influenced by things around us without us even realizing it.
Research strongly suggests, however, that your decision might still be influenced by the race and gender of the applicant.
This stood out to me because it shows that people can be influenced by things without even realizing that they are affecting their decisions. I think this is important to the main point because the article explains that implicit bias can happen even when someone is trying to make a fair decision.