AI Is Hiding Its Racism

New research reveals that as tech companies make chatbots sound friendlier, their prejudice doesn’t disappear—it just goes underground

AI is a quick learner, even when it comes to bigotry.

Large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI and ChatGPT are trained on nearly all the written information available on the internet, including content that contains explicit and subtle racism and bigotry. As the Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) explains, LLMs are “trained on billions of words to t…