Black Students Are More Likely to Be Falsely Accused of Using AI to Cheat

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Black teenagers twice as likely to be falsely accused of using AI tools in homework

The NewsRacial biases have been known to creep into artificial intelligence algorithms. Now teachers are bringing it into the classroom as they police students’ use of generative AI tools like ChatGPT to complete homework, according to a new study by children’s safety nonprofit Common Sense Media.The group found that Black teenagers in the US are about twice as likely as their white and Latino peers to have teachers incorrectly flag their school…