Florida teen tests AI bias: Just 17.4% of images showed women scientists

The idea came about when Peter and his younger sister Elisa were using the Magic Media AI tool by Canva. (Images: istock and Society for Science)Peter Fernández Dulay’s younger sister asked an AI tool to draw a scientist and hoped to see someone who looked like the scientists she might be one day. The pictures, however, showed the same figure again and again: an older man with light skin and gray, frizzy hair. According to Society for Science data, that simple observation sparked Peter, an eighth-grader from Florida, to launch a research project on how artificial intelligence represents people in science and technology. His findings posed a troubling question: If AI learns from existing data that contains stereotypes, does the technology reproduce those same biases? Scroll down to know wha