Home Big Question (Answered): “Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics. Purposeful Policy or Search Oversight?”

Big Question (Answered): “Siri Can’t Find Abortion Clinics. Purposeful Policy or Search Oversight?”

Yesterday Raw Story noticed that Siri will find you many things, including Viagra, the meaning of life, and even give you a good place to stash a body, but ask for help locating some reproductive services and Siri will serve you abortion alternatives. In New York, for example, Siri finds no abortion clinics.

Alicia Eler makes the case that because Siri represents the future of AI-powered search, it’s imperative that it gets search right.

Is it an oversight or some sort of anti-abortion policy?

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