AI responses and outputs in relation to political bias.

AI chatbots pose significant risks centered on political bias, since the models can generate vast
amounts of speech, potentially shaping public opinion and enabling the spread of
misinformation
ChatGPT uses an algorithm that selects words based on lessons learned from scanning billions
of pieces of text across the internet. The tool has gained popularity for viral posts that
demonstrate it composing Shakespearean poetry or identifying bugs in computer code.
But the technology has also stoked controversy with some troubling results. The designers of
ChatGPT programmed safeguards that prevent it from taking up controversial opinions or
expressing hate speech.
While AI systems are designed to make decisions based on patterns and data, they are not
immune to biases that may exist in the data they are trained on or the algorithms used to
process that data.
Training data bias: AI systems learn from large datasets, and if these datasets contain biased or
unrepresentative information, the AI system can perpetuate those biases. For example, if an AI
system is trained on historical data that reflects societal biases or discrimination, it may learn
and reinforce those biases when making decisions.
Lack of diverse perspectives: If AI development teams lack diversity in terms of political beliefs,
cultural backgrounds, or experiences, it can lead to blind spots and unintentional biases in the
design and development process. Diverse perspectives are important to ensure that AI systems
are fair and inclusive.
Musk, who co-founded OpenAI but left the organization in 2018, in a December tweet accused
OpenAI of "training AI to be woke."
While AI chatbots deserve scrutiny over political bias, Musk stands as an imperfect
spokesperson for such criticism because of his own high-profile political views, some experts
said.
Musk has taken up a slew of conservative stances in recent months, including an expression of
support for Republican candidates in the midterm elections last year and repeated criticism of
"woke" politics.
As AI-driven products become a bigger part of daily public life — with Google and Microsoft
scrambling to integrate large language models into search, for instance — this argument has
the potential to explode. Who makes the decisions about what these systems can and can’t
say? Who can force companies to be transparent and accountable for it? With such complex,
privately held technology, is that even possible?
“It’s biased towards current prevailing views in society… versus views from the 1990s, 1980s, or
1880s, because there are far fewer documents that are being sucked up the further you go
back,” the computer scientist Louis Rosenberg told me. “I also suspect it’s going to be biased
towards large industrialized nations, versus populations that don’t generate as much digital
content.”
“The problems I’m really concerned with inside AI are racism, sexism, and ableism,” said
Meredith Broussard, an NYU professor and former software developer. “Structural
discrimination and structural inequality exist in the world, and are visible inside AI systems.
When we increasingly rely on these systems to make social decisions or mediate the world
we’re perpetuating those biases.”

Though it comes from a different spot on the political map, conservatives’ complaint here is
similar to the progressive critique. Some conservative critics are quick to paint tech firms as
nests of liberals, tilting query results to match their own politics, but it’s not unreasonable that
the outcome might have a lot more to do with skewed underlying data — making this more of a
story about liberal bias in the source material, such as media coverage and online political
writing.