When Blanca Cobb asked AI to generate a hairstyle for a Black woman, it didn’t give her braids, it didn’t give her twists, it didn’t even try. It put a pineapple on her head.

That moment was funny at first, but the more we talked about it, the more revealing the question became. What happens when the technology shaping our future literally doesn’t understand us?

In this episode, Blanca Cobb talks about the hidden bias inside artificial intelligence, how culture gets lost in the data that trains these systems, and why something as simple as Black hair can reveal a much bigger problem.

Because if AI can’t recognize something as basic as our hair… what else is it getting wrong?

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