What a cockatoo can teach us about the evidence AI wasn’t built to hear
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THE AI ANGLE
Analyzing institutional records to recommend consequential decisionsResearch on animal-computer interaction shows that interface choices dictate what information can become evidence. Artificial intelligence analyzes representations of reality, which leaves out relevant context that databases and forms were never built to record. Technologists and philosophers must now assess whether an evidence environment is sufficient for consequential decisions rather than checking model accuracy alone.
THE TEACHING ANGLE
A human reviewer cannot catch missing context if both the person and the algorithm rely on the exact same incomplete record.Read the original at cio.com Generate teaching or study materials
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