Artificial intelligence acts as an ‘ideological chameleon’ and may deepen political polarization, study finds

By Sophia La Banca, Agência FAPESP Researchers at the State University of Campinas (UNICAMP) in the state of São Paulo, Brazil, examined the ideological stance of large language models – artificial intelligence systems trained to understand and generate human language – and discovered that when informed of a user’s political views, they tend to mirror those views. According to the researchers,…