Researchers say that artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots have become much more liberal over time with their answers regarding gun control and crime.
The president of the Crime Prevention Research Center, Dr. John Lott, an economist, maintained that AI can only be unbiased if it is given all the necessary information, not just one side’s opinions.
“It just depends on what type of information is provided to the chatbot,” Lott said. “Anybody who uses Google News search knows that sources such as the New York Times, the Boston Post, are going to come up on top. Information from more conservative type sources are going to be buried way down in it.”
Lott said that his team was tasked with asking 20 AI chatbots 16 questions related to crime and gun control, both in March and again in August. However, the results showed that the chatbots’ answers were much more liberal and leftist in August than they were in March.
