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Practical exercise

Fact check AI on one piece of Pakistani history

AI's training data on Pakistani history leans toward whatever was written in English, by foreign authors, sitting in foreign archives. That changes which heroes get remembered, which dates feel certain, which voices were never written down. Today you will catch AI in this leaning by comparing one event in your textbook to what the chatbot says.

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Fact check AI on one piece of Pakistani history

Stretch

On a laptop, open archive dot org and search the same event. Find one primary source from the period (a newspaper, speech, or photograph). Add a fourth column to your sheet titled primary source.

Goes into your portfolio

A photographed paper with three or four columns comparing textbook, AI, family memory, and optionally a primary source on one Pakistani historical event, plus a 100 word reflection.