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Checking AI answers for mistakes and bias
A quick routine for catching made up facts and lopsided answers before they reach anyone else.
Check anything you would be embarrassed to get wrong
Names, dates, numbers, quotes and legal or medical points. Look them up in a source you already trust.
Ask where it came from
Ask the tool for its sources, then open them. If it cannot point to one, or the link does not say what it claimed, treat the point as unproven.
Look for who is missing
Notice whose view is centred and who is left out. Ask it to rewrite from another point of view, or for examples from different places and people.
Watch the defaults
If every doctor in its story is a man and every nurse a woman, say so and ask again. Bias often hides in the examples, not the main point.
Try it now
Ask a question you already know the answer to, and see how well it does.
Reviewed from: Elements of AI (University of Helsinki and MinnaLearn), Google AI Essentials (Google). Written in our own words.
Drafted with AI from the linked sources. Check the links for the full detail.