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A collection of reported real-world AI incidents, with links to the underlying reports.
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2. Choose your situation
A talk goes wrong when it becomes a debate to win. It goes well when people try to understand the same thing.
- A school or parent groupPTA, staff meeting, curriculum night.
- A clinic team or health boardMorbidity and quality, ethics, procurement.
- A congregation, council, or neighborhoodCivic life, mutual aid, a town that did not buy the tool but lives under it.
- Young people, and those who sit with themYouth group, classroom, library.
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Young people, and those who sit with them
A way to begin
What do you already use that an adult in this room does not understand well enough to ask a good question about?
3. Questions to bring
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When is a chatbot a tool, and when is it being asked to be a friend?
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How do you tell a true thing from a fluent thing?
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What would a fair classroom tool actually do?
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What should adults stop doing that they think is protection?
Related concerns
AI companions and adolescent development
AI companions may affect adolescent development when they become a major setting for learning about trust, boundaries and relationships.
Chatbots producing self-harm content
Unsafe self-harm responses occur when a chatbot encourages, enables or fails to respond appropriately to a person expressing a wish to hurt themselves.
Grading-AI errors and bias
Automated-grading error occurs when AI assigns an inaccurate or unfair score, including when language patterns influence the result more than the skill being assessed.
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How / when / why
Causal taxonomy of AI risks
MIT AI Risk Initiative
A way to describe who is involved in a risk, whether it is intentional, and when it arises.
Use this to make a broad concern more specific.