“They said to the Snapchat, my AI friend, hey, do you know where we are... AI was like, no, don't know your location... then asked for lunch suggestions”

The Tech Policy Press Podcast · Natasha Singer Details Tech’s Grip on Public Schools

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Had students ask Snapchat’s "My AI Friend" about location and lunch suggestions to test data collection and personalization

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“Collect data… fit a small local student model… route to student models when there is high confidence”
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“My students and I spent a long weekend, um, uh, recently in Columbus, Ohio. And we spoke to, you know, uh, 25, we had a large town hall style focus group in person after person after person”
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“These are nationally representative surveys done by YouGov... we started collecting data in 2017 and have been collecting data on this every year since”
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“Right-click, extract data, and AI reads the entity of this document… suggests what data can be added to the case file”
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