UW News

Robert Wolfe


January 21, 2025

Study finds strong negative associations with teenagers in AI models

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A UW team studied how AI systems portray teens in English and Nepali, and found that in English language systems around 30% of the responses referenced societal problems such as violence, drug use and mental illness. The Nepali system produced fewer negative associations in responses, closer to 10% of all answers.