NewsPronto

 
The Times


.

USA Conversation

The Conversation USA

The Conversation USA

AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of Indonesian society explains

  • Written by Gareth Barkin, Professor of Anthropology and Asian Studies, University of Puget Sound
imageAI models derive their assumptions from English-language sources based in the United States.Weiquan Lin/Moment via Getty Images

A friend in Indonesia recently told me about a conversation he had with ChatGPT. He had typed a question in Indonesian – Bahasa Indonesia – about how to handle a difficult family dispute. The chatbot responded...

Read more: AI’s fluency in other languages hides a Western worldview that can mislead users − a scholar of...

More Articles ...

  1. 75 years after she led a student strike that helped end school segregation, Barbara Rose Johns now stands in the US Capitol where Robert E. Lee once did
  2. Trump risks falling in to the ‘asymmetric resolve’ trap in Iran − just as presidents before him did elsewhere
  3. Why Iran targeted Amazon data centers and what that does – and doesn’t – change about warfare
  4. The Department of Justice is suing states for sensitive voter data − an election law scholar explains why federal efforts are facing resistance
  5. Why Michael Jackson’s daughter, Paris, won’t stop ‘til she gets enough from his estate
  6. You’re not going to be alone in national parks this summer – enjoy the company
  7. Winter’s alarmingly low snowpack offers a glimpse of the changing rhythm of water in the western US
  8. Federal election observers once played a key role in securing voting rights for all − but times have changed
  9. The NFL draft brings economic gains – and hidden public safety costs
  10. What Detroit can learn from participatory budgeting processes in NYC, Boston and Brazil
  11. Students were skipping my astrophysics class to play video games – so I turned the class itself into a video game
  12. How long young cancer patients survive often depends on the insurance they have
  13. Astronaut Victor Glover is the latest in a long line of Black American explorers − including York, the enslaved man who played a key role in the Lewis and Clark expedition
  14. ‘Project Hail Mary’ demonstrates how intellectual humility can be a guiding force for scientists and astronauts
  15. Holocaust survivors in France came home to stolen apartments, looted furniture and bureaucratic hurdles
  16. How California’s war on smog and its ambitious car pollution rules made everyone’s air cleaner
  17. How polling failures, gambling legalization and political gridlock paved the way for the explosive rise of prediction markets
  18. From youth bulges to graying societies: The demographic dynamics that are upending the world
  19. Trump Fed pick Kevin Warsh could shake up the central bank with his ‘family fight’ model
  20. Ticks are the backyard threat southwestern Pennsylvania homeowners keep ignoring
  21. Benefits of mindfulness meditation go far beyond relaxation – here’s what it is and how to practice it
  22. Artemis II’s long countdown – a space historian explains why it has taken over 50 years to return to the Moon
  23. How sea mines threaten global trade, and how navies detect them
  24. Decades of hostility between Iran and the US were preceded by a little-remembered century-long friendship
  25. NASA wants to build a base on the Moon by the 2030s – how and why it plans to build up to a long-term lunar presence
  26. Basic income’s appeal today is similar to its roots in 18th-century England – it’s a way to compensate people for a common good taken for private gain
  27. Are multiverses real? An astrophysicist explains why it depends on how you define ‘real’
  28. Panicking scientists, canceled experiments – federal funding cuts turned my work as a research dean into crisis management
  29. Sex test used in IOC’s new transgender ban more likely to exclude from Olympics intersex women who were assigned female at birth
  30. Shiite grief over attacks on Iran’s sacred cities has deep historical roots
  31. We analyzed Philly street scenes and identified signs of gentrification using machine learning trained on longtime residents’ observations
  32. Trump’s ‘God Squad’ pits energy vs. endangered species, but it’s a false choice – protecting wildlife can be good for business
  33. COVID-19 variant BA.3.2 is spreading quickly across US – a doctor explains what you need to know
  34. Ultralightweight sonar plus AI lets tiny drones navigate like bats
  35. What Americans can learn from other civil activism movements against authoritarian regimes
  36. War on Iran during nuclear negotiations undermines the US’s ability to talk peace around the world − and the effects won’t end when Trump leaves office
  37. From ‘Project Hail Mary’ to Artemis II, spaceflight captures audiences when it centers on people because human space travel is hazardous
  38. New study measures titanium in Apollo rock to uncover Moon’s early chemistry
  39. How a diplomatic snub evokes the complicated US-Brazil relationship in the second Trump era
  40. American politicians talk about persecuted Christians abroad – but here’s what happens when those Christians migrate to the US
  41. Why do some people treat the Magic Kingdom and Disney adults like cultural abominations?
  42. Birutė Galdikas: The last of the ‘angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  43. Birutė Galdikas: The last of ‘Leakey’s Angels’ in primatology’s most extraordinary chapter
  44. War in the Middle East made the case for renewables – what’s happening in each country tells a harder story
  45. Cameras have quietly appeared in thousands of US cities – now, their integration with AI is sounding alarms
  46. Two verdicts in two days: How American courts are rewriting the rules for Big Tech and children
  47. I went to CPAC and found Trump supporters unhappy about Iran, Epstein files and the economy, even while the fans at the MAGA conference celebrate his immigration policies
  48. Mosquitoes carrying malaria are evolving more quickly than insecticides can kill them – researchers pinpoint how
  49. Millions are protesting – but boycotts might be key to changing government policies
  50. The long shadow of Paul Ehrlich’s ‘Population Bomb’ is evident in anti-immigration efforts today