Study finds that Google’s AI features create “unacceptable risks” for children | Infinium-tech

Many Internet giants have found themselves under scrutiny from lawmakers, regulators, and organizations concerned with the safety of children on the Web. Google and its AI search are the latest to come under fire.

Interestingly, this may have been due to the success of Chromebooks – they are very popular as school laptops. The Common Sense media organization points out that what sets Google’s AI apart from all other AI services is that “Ubiquitous on children’s personal and school-issued devices.”

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The organization found many issues. Homework is one – Google’s AI mode will happily do all the homework the student should have done. Worse, it will produce different answers from one attempt to the next, sometimes right, sometimes wrong.

It gets worse from there. According to the organization, Google’s AI mode “Unsuccessful children in crisis, including missing clear signs of suicidal ideation, strengthening signs of psychosis and mania, validating disordered eating, including celebrating purging and cannabis use.”

AI mode is the chatbot interface and appears only when the user clicks the “AI mode” button. It also has an AI overview feature, which appears automatically. One important thing is that none of the features can be disabled.

You can read the full report on Common Sense Media’s findings Here (PDF). In short, Google’s AI features performed poorly on seven of the eight “established AI principles” that the organization tests for.

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