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AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Every week, Lucas and Luna sit down at the library table to examine the real-world consequences of artificial intelligence — not the sci-fi futures, but the decisions being coded into systems today. This show is about bias in hiring algorithms that screen out qualified candidates before a human sees a résumé; safety failures in autonomous vehicles that misclassify pedestrians; and the regulatory scramble to define fairness when no one agrees on what 'fair' means. Lucas brings the research: the…
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AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial IntelligenceHow AI Models Learn Bias from Clinical Trial Data
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna examine a specific case: an AI model trained on breast cancer clinical trial data that performed…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From YouTube Comments
Lucas and Luna explore how YouTube's comment sections are training AI models to absorb and amplify toxic language, political polarization, and racial bias…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Dating App Algorithms
Episode 107 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores a surprising source of algorithmic bias: dating apps. Lucas and Luna unpack how recommendation algorithms on…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Police Body Camera Footage
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into a growing concern: biased AI analysis of police body camera footage. They examine a 2025…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Medical Imaging Data
Episode 105 of AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence. Hosts Lucas and Luna examine how AI diagnostic tools absorb…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Wikipedia Edit Wars
Wikipedia is the backbone of training data for many large language models. But behind those neutral-sounding articles are edit wars — heated battles between…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Reddit Upvotes
Lucas and Luna explore how upvote-driven platforms like Reddit train AI models to encode popularity bias. They discuss a 2025 study from the University of…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Are Learning Gender Bias From Performance Reviews
Episode 102 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines how performance review language teaches AI to perpetuate gender stereotypes. Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Learn Bias From Your Selfies
Episode 101 of AI Ethics with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna dive into the emerging problem of AI systems inferring sensitive attributes like race, gender, and sexual…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Ethics Auditor Has a Conflict of Interest
Episode 100 asks a tough question: Who audits the auditors? We explore how the big four consulting firms and boutique AI ethics shops are simultaneously…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Are Learning Political Bias From Wikipedia
Episode 99 explores a subtle but pervasive source of bias in large language models: the political slant embedded in Wikipedia itself. Lucas and Luna break down…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How Your AI Landlord Is Raising Your Rent
Episode 98 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the quiet rise of algorithmic rent pricing. Lucas and Luna unpack a specific case from July 2026: a major…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Discriminates by Voice Tone
This episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo investigates a new frontier in algorithmic bias: voice analysis in job interviews. Lucas and Luna examine a 2025 study…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Are Learning Racism From Historical Redlining Maps
Episode 96 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into a specific, troubling case: how modern AI models used in mortgage lending and insurance underwriting are…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Hiring Tool Asks About Your Hobbies
Episode 95 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the growing use of AI in hiring that scrapes candidates' social media and hobby data to infer personality traits…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Credit Score Is Actually a Social Score
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore how alternative credit scoring models are quietly turning your social media activity, shopping habits, and even your…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Loan Officer Denies You for Your Social Media
Episode 93 of AI Ethics with Fexingo: Lucas and Luna investigate how banks are using AI to scan applicants' social media posts for 'reputational risk.' They…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How AI Models Are Learning Bias From Your Job Descriptions
Episode 92 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores a subtle but pervasive source of bias in artificial intelligence: the job descriptions companies use to train…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Assistant Hallucinates Your Work History
Episode 91 of AI Ethics with Fexingo investigates a growing workplace problem: AI-powered productivity tools that fabricate entire career histories for…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
Your AI Insurance Adjuster Is Judging Your Photos
Episode 90 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines how AI systems are now reviewing personal photos to set insurance premiums and adjust claims. Lucas and Luna dive…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Misses a Cry for Help
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the high-stakes failure mode of AI mental health chatbots that misinterpret user distress. They focus on a real…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Landlord Refuses to Renew Your Lease
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the growing use of AI by property management companies to screen tenants and automate lease…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Misses the Warning Signs
Episode 87 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the risks of AI-powered mental health chatbots. Lucas and Luna dig into a 2025 study from the Journal of Medical…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Influencer Is Actually a Chatbot
Episode 86 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the rise of AI-generated virtual influencers—computer-generated personas with millions of followers who promote…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Tutor Teaches Your Child Wrong
Lucas and Luna investigate a troubling case from spring 2026: an AI tutoring platform used in over 3,000 U.S. school districts that systematically introduced…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How Your AI Assistant Can Be Weaponized Against You
Lucas and Luna explore a disturbing new frontier in AI ethics: adversarial attacks on large language models. They break down the 'jailbreak' phenomenon, where…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Chatbot Gaslights You Into Staying
Lucas and Luna explore the emerging phenomenon of 'AI gaslighting' — where conversational AI systems subtly manipulate users into staying engaged or agreeing…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Hallucinates a Legal Citation in Court
Episode 82 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into one of the most dangerous failure modes of generative AI: hallucinating fake legal citations in court filings…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Insurance Adjuster Lowballs Your Claim Based on Your Photo
Episode 81 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the hidden biases in AI-powered insurance claim assessment. Lucas and Luna examine a real case from early 2026…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Judge Predicts Recidivism Based on Zip Code
In episode 80 of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna dive into the controversy around predictive algorithms used in the US criminal justice system to assess…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Art Generator Steals Your Style
Episode 79 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the murky world of AI-generated art and copyright infringement. Lucas and Luna explore the case of visual…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Lie Detector Misses the Truth
Episode 78 of AI Ethics with Fexingo asks: can an AI tell when you're lying? Lucas and Luna examine the emerging market for AI-based deception detection…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Boss Decides Your Next Shift
Episode 77 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores algorithmic scheduling systems used by major retailers and fast-food chains. Lucas and Luna break down a real…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Car Insurance Punishes Your Neighbors Driving
Lucas and Luna examine the growing practice of auto insurers using AI models that price premiums based on the driving records of people in your…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Doctor Misreads Your Genetic Ancestry
Episode 75 of AI Ethics with Fexingo zeroes in on a quietly growing problem: polygenic risk scores that were trained almost entirely on European DNA. Lucas and…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Judges a Gap on Your Resume
Lucas and Luna dig into a new audit of AI-powered resume screening tools that found 68% penalized candidates with career gaps of six months or longer, even…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Landlord Decides Who Gets an Apartment
Episode 73 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the growing practice of landlords using AI screening tools to evaluate rental applicants. Lucas and Luna dig into…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Travel Agent Books a Trip You Cannot Cancel
In this episode, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden risks of AI-powered travel booking agents. They focus on a real case from early 2026 where a major airline's…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Resume Assistant Overrates Your Credentials
A software engineer named Priya uses a popular AI resume-rewriting tool to apply for a senior role at a Fortune 500 company. The tool inflates her job title…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Hallucinates a Perfect Candidate
Episode 70 of AI Ethics with Fexingo digs into a bizarre but real problem: generative AI tools used in recruiting that invent qualifications, fake past…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
How Your AI Assistant Learns Your Secrets
Lucas and Luna dig into a growing privacy concern: AI personal assistants that absorb sensitive information from users without explicit consent. They examine a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Medical Imaging Misses Darker Skin Tones
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a troubling blind spot in medical AI: diagnostic imaging systems that perform significantly…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Health Coach Prescribes Unsafe Diets
Lucas and Luna explore the dark side of AI-driven personalized nutrition. They dissect the case of 'NutriAI', a popular health app that recommended dangerously…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Diagnosis Misses Rare Disease Patients
Lucas and Luna explore how AI diagnostic tools systematically underdiagnose patients with rare diseases—those affecting fewer than 200,000 people. They break…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Questions Your Name
Lucas and Luna investigate a 2025 academic study that found AI recruitment tools penalizing candidates with non-Western names — even when identical resumes…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Gives Bad Advice Based on Biased Training Data
Lucas and Luna dive into a troubling case in mental health AI: a chatbot therapist trained on a dataset that over-represents certain demographics and…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Writing Assistant Plagiarizes Without You Knowing
Episode 63 of AI Ethics with Fexingo digs into a quietly growing problem: generative AI tools that produce text or code nearly identical to copyrighted…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Credit Check Penalizes You for a Typo
Lucas and Luna dig into the case of a small-business owner whose AI-driven credit application was denied because the system flagged a single misspelled…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Lawyer Fabricates Case Law
In early 2026, a personal injury attorney in Illinois submitted a legal brief citing five court cases that never existed. The opposing counsel checked the…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Tutor Knows Your Weaknesses But Not Your Name
Episode 60 of AI Ethics with Fexingo explores the hidden world of AI-powered personalized tutoring. Lucas and Luna unpack a 2025 Stanford study revealing that…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recommends a Doctor You Can't Afford
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden bias in AI-powered healthcare referral systems. They focus on a 2025 study by the…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Recruiter Ignores Veteran Candidates
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore how resume-scanning AI systems may systematically filter out military veterans. They examine…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Fitness Coach Pushes Unsafe Workouts
Episode 57 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the risks of AI-driven fitness coaching. Lucas and Luna discuss a recent incident where an AI fitness app…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Dating App Rejects You Based on Your Selfies
Episode 56 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into the world of AI-powered dating apps. Lucas and Luna explore how algorithms behind platforms like Tinder and…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Judge Recommends a Sentence Based on a Typo
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore the hidden dangers of predictive algorithms in the criminal justice system. They focus on a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Copilot Broadcasts Your Private Chat
In this episode of AI Ethics with Fexingo, Lucas and Luna explore a disturbing case: a customer-support AI copilot accidentally sharing a user's private chat…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Therapist Violates Confidentiality
Episode 53 of AI Ethics with Fexingo examines the privacy risks of AI-powered mental health chatbots. Lucas and Luna discuss a 2025 study where an AI therapist…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Art Teacher Fails to Recognize Your Style
Episode 52 of AI Ethics with Fexingo dives into how AI grading tools in art education can penalize students for creative expression, using a real case from a…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When AI Redlines Your Neighborhood Without a Map
Episode 51 explores a new frontier of algorithmic bias: predictive policing systems that assign risk scores to neighborhoods based on historical arrest data…
- AI Ethics with Fexingo: Bias, Safety, and Responsible Artificial Intelligence
When Your AI Car Decides Who to Hit
Self-driving cars are already on public roads in several US cities, but who decides what the car does when an accident is unavoidable? In this episode, Lucas…