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Three Recent Graduates Share Their Thoughts on AI 56%
By Alan Montecillo0% Jessica Kariisa0% Ericka Cruz Guevarra0%
6/1/2026, 3:00:44 AM
Topics: The Bay
BS Summary: This article contains 11 faulty reasoning types, including Framing Effect, Representativeness Heuristic, and Pessimism Bias, with Biased Writer Voice as the most egregious example at 46.6% saturation with 55 hits. Analysis detected 305 faulty-reasoning hits from 118 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 53.2% and a BS Rank of 56% (9,798 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 55.20% of the article peer group.
This graduation season has felt different.
Commencement speakers across the country are getting booed for promoting AI in their speeches – and the videos have gone viral.
Recent college graduates were in school when ChatGPT first launched in late 2022, and many are worried about how AI will affect their future job prospects and society at large.
Today, we hear from three recent graduates in the Bay Area about their thoughts on AI, how it affected their education, and how they feel about their futures.
Some members of the KQED podcast team are represented by The Screen Actors Guild, American Federation of Television and Radio Artists, San Francisco-Northern California Local.
Confirmation Bias
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Anchoring Bias
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Availability Heuristic
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Representativeness Heuristic
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Hindsight Bias
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Framing Effect
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Loss Aversion
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Status Quo Bias
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Sunk Cost Effect
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Optimism Bias
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Pessimism Bias
25.4%Pessimism Bias
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Negativity Bias
22.9%Negativity Bias
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Self-Serving Bias
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Fundamental Attribution Error
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Actor-Observer Bias
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In-Group Bias
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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Halo Effect
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Horn Effect
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
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Recency Bias
17.8%Recency Bias
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Primacy Effect
5.1%Primacy Effect
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Blind-Spot Bias
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Ad Hominem
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Straw Man
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Appeal to Authority
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False Dilemma
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Slippery Slope
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Circular Reasoning
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Hasty Generalization
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Red Herring
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Bandwagon
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Appeal to Emotion
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Begging the Question
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
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Tu Quoque
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Burden of Proof
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Appeal to Nature
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Composition/Division
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Anecdotal
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No True Scotsman
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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Gambler’s Fallacy
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Middle Ground
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Personal Incredulity
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Special Pleading
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Genetic Fallacy
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Unattributed Quote
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Quote-first Misdirection
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Biased Writer Voice
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Indoctrination
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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118 words analyzed.
Analysis
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