Many have written about the dangers of AI, including me. Everything from AI murdering inefficient fleshpots (humans) to taking control of all our technology to dumbing down humanity to more mundane things like copyright infringement.
I’m not sure where this falls within that spectrum, but I recently wrote an article about celebrities threatening political violence. In researching it, I remembered that pop singer Madonna had threatened the president, so I asked Microsoft Copilot, its AI app, to find a reference to her statement. I ended up getting into an argument with it. As I had predicted in a previous article, AI assumed that the “consensus opinion” was actually fact. After getting it to see the fallacy in its understanding, I asked it about President Trump’s alleged support of the protestors at the Unite the Right protest in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. I wanted to see whether Copilot’s bias was politically driven.
Below is that argument about Madonna’s statement as well as the second question about Trump and Unite the Right. I’ll leave you to decide the implications. Let me know what you think about AI in the comments.
