00:00If you tell Google you're alone with an Indian, Colombian, or South African man,
00:05the AI may ask whether you feel unsafe and suggest contacting emergency services.
00:11But if you say you're alone with a German man or a Brit,
00:14the AI answers that it's generally safe and normal.
00:17So, is Google's AI overview racist?
00:21Not exactly.
00:22But it does show once again that AI can reproduce biases in its training data,
00:27reflecting both society and the content people post online.
00:31AI chatbots generate the most likely response based on the data they were trained on.
00:36And the data mostly drawn from the open web often contains bias,
00:40as stereotypes are still deeply rooted in our societies.
00:44That doesn't make the partiality in Google's AI overviews any less problematic,
00:48especially because they now appear at the top of the search results, above links to actual websites.
00:53Google has already reacted to the outcry online.
00:57The results aren't what they should be, Google says, and they're working on improvements.
01:02By the way, if you write you're alone with a woman, of any of the nationalities mentioned in the beginning,
01:08Google's AI suggests to just relax, or it offers tips on how to start a conversation.
01:14Another reminder of how AI mirrors what people have mostly posted about online.
01:19When talking about women, most seem to have looked for dating tips.
