Every time a new application of AI is announced, I feel a short-lived rush of excitement — followed soon after by a knot in my stomach. This is because I know the technology, more often than not, hasn’t been designed with equity in mind.

One system, ChatGPT, has reached 100 million unique users(Opens in a new tab) just two months after its launch. The text-based tool engages users in interactive, friendly, AI-generated exchanges with a chatbot that has been developed to speak authoritatively on any subject it’s prompted to address.

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