{"id":24672,"date":"2024-07-02T05:32:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T00:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=24672"},"modified":"2025-04-07T11:13:29","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T05:43:29","slug":"artificial-intelligence-ai-washing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/artificial-intelligence-ai-washing\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Artificial Intelligence (AI) washing"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>About Artificial Intelligence (AI) washing:\u00a0<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a deceptive promotional practice that exaggerates or outright lies about a product or service\u2019s use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To capitalize on people\u2019s interest in AI and make an offering seem to be more cutting-edge than it really is.\n<ul>\n<li>For example, a company may claim their chatbot is \u201cPowered by the latest AI technology\u201d when in reality, it simply matches keywords with pre-written responses.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is a term <strong>derived from greenwashing<\/strong>, where companies exaggerate their environmental friendliness to appeal to customers.<\/li>\n<li>Similarly, businesses that claim to have integrated AI into their products, when they\u2019re actually using <strong>less sophisticated technology<\/strong>, can be accused of AI washing.<\/li>\n<li>It is found that the companies had made false statements to their clients about providing \u2018expert AI-driven forecasts\u2019 and <strong>using machine learning to manage retail client portfolios.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Problems<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>AI washing can have concerning <strong>impacts for businesses<\/strong>, from overpaying for technology and services to <strong>failing<\/strong> to <strong>meet operational objectives<\/strong> the AI was expected to help them achieve.&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>Meanwhile, for investors it can make it harder to identify genuinely innovative companies.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Artificial Intelligence (AI)?<\/h3>\n<p>It is an emerging technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human intelligence and problem-solving capabilities. It involves the development of algorithms and models that enable computers to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence, such as learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and decision-making.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/technology\/tech-news-technology\/what-is-ai-washing-risks-concerns-examples-9420592\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Hype over reality: How AI washing can dent businesses and delude users<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial Intelligence (AI) washing  is a deceptive promotional practice that exaggerates or outright lies about a product or service\u2019s use of artificial intelligence (AI).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":24673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-24672","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}