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How AI Chatbots Learn Bias from Therapy Sessions
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a subtle but consequential problem: AI chatbots designed for mental-health support can pick up biases from the very therapy transcripts they train on. They start with the case of a chatbot that recommended religious counselling to users expressing suicidal thoughts—a reflection of training data that overrepresented religious coping strategies. The conversation digs into how therapeutic language, cultural assumptions, and even the structure of therapy sessions can skew an AI's responses, leading to advice that might be harmful…
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