Images Between Bias, AI, and the Real World
Luca Basteris, Maria Cristina Daperno · 2026
This article describes an educational activity tested in class 2E of the “Pellico-Peano” Classical and Scientific High School in Cuneo (Italy). This activity aims to raise awareness among young people about the images with which they encounter daily on the network, the cognitive biases with which they interpret them, and the artificial intelligence used as a privileged tool to generate images, also trained by our biases. In particular, the proposed activity pays particular attention to the ethical implications related to the use of applications that exploit artificial intelligence, leading students, through gaming activities, to acquire awareness of the hidden mechanisms in AI algorithms and the cognitive biases that regulate “our” functioning, as well as reflecting on the meaning of viewing images and photographs which are, in most cases, not real.