Is AI "Too Woke"? | The Woke AI Controversy

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Sources:
PolitiFact – Matthew Crowley, “What does it mean to be ‘woke’?” (Mar. 7, 2023)
PolitiFact – (ibid., quoting a definition by a DeSantis spokesperson)
Stanford HAI – Andrew Myers, “Assessing Political Bias in Language Models” (May 22, 2023)
Fox Business – Brian Flood & Nikolas Lanum, “ChatGPT: Critics fear AI tool has liberal biases, pushes left-wing talking points” (Mar. 30, 2023)
Fox News – Joseph Wulfsohn, “ChatGPT faces mounting accusations of being ‘woke,’ having liberal bias” (Feb. 16, 2023)
POLITICO – Derek Robertson, “The problem behind AI’s political ‘bias’” (Aug. 24, 2023)
MIT News – Ellen Hoffman, “Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias” (Dec. 10, 2024)
AI Snake Oil (blog) – Arvind Narayanan & Sayash Kapoor, “Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?” (Aug. 18, 2023)
Brookings Institution – Jeremy Baum & John Villasenor, “The politics of AI: ChatGPT and political bias” (2023)
Reuters – Krystal Hu, “OpenAI to enable more customizations… to address concerns about bias” (Mar. 9, 2023)
Choudhary, T. (2024). Political Bias in AI Language Models: A Comparative Analysis of ChatGPT-4, Perplexity, Google Gemini, and Claude
Buyl, M. et al. (2024). Large Language Models Reflect the Ideology of their Creators
MIT News (Dec 10, 2024) – Study: Some language reward models exhibit political bias
PsyPost (Feb 14, 2025) – Scientists reveal ChatGPT's left-wing bias — and how to "jailbreak" it.
The Telegraph (Oct 27, 2024) – 'Woke’ chatbots back rent controls and dislike free speech.
El País (Nov 28, 2024) – ChatGPT is right-wing and Gemini is left-wing: Why each AI has its own ideology
The Economic Times (Feb 27, 2025) – Elon Musk warns of ‘woke mind virus’ in AI, says it is an existential threat to humanity
Fox News (Mar 2023) – Elon Musk, critics of 'woke' AI tech set out to create their own chatbots
Wired (Feb 22, 2024) – Google’s ‘Woke’ Image Generator Shows the Limitations of AI
OpenAI Blog (Feb 2023) – How should AI systems behave, and who should decide?
The Express Tribune (Jan 15, 2025) – OpenAI removes 'politically unbiased' reference in policy update
Center for Policy Studies Report (2024) via Telegraph – ‘Woke’ chatbots back rent controls and dislike free speech
U.S. Executive Order on AI (Oct 2023) – Key takeaways from the Biden administration executive order on AI
EU AI Act (draft approved Feb 2024) – EU’s AI Act: What regulators should know

00:00 Introduction: Is AI Too Woke?
00:44 Personalized AI Answers on Demand
01:42 Understanding 'Woke' and Its History
03:57 How AI Systems Learn and Develop Bias
07:59 The Woke AI Controversy
09:30 Conservative Critiques and Media Narratives
15:12 Academic Studies on AI Bias
21:42 Ethical Considerations and Bias in AI
24:25 Conclusion: The Real Question Behind AI Bias