‘Very wonderful, very toxic’: how AI became the culture war’s new frontier

While the far right claims artificial intelligence has become too ‘woke’, experts argue it’s not a sentient being with its own viewpoints

When Elon Musk introduced the team behind his new artificial intelligence company xAI last month, the billionaire entrepreneur took a question from the rightwing media activist Alex Lorusso. ChatGPT had begun “editorializing the truth” by giving “weird answers like that there are more than two genders”, Lorusso posited. Was that a driver behind Musk’s decision to launch xAI, …

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