Also popular are AI chatbots, which provide instant access to information in a way that could only be dreamed of before their advent. These programs provide detailed answers to user questions in a beguilingly straightforward manner, but at the same time this practice raised yet more questions.
Just how balanced and accurate is the instant feedback users receive from AI? In this case, is the debate over gun rights skewed toward constitutional freedoms or the arguments of anti-gunners? Or neither?
Unfortunately, a new study revealed that AI is firmly on the side of those who would strip away gun rights. Much as the mainstream media, this technology relies almost exclusively on “experts” and data sources from those in favor of expanded gun control.
Economist and researcher Dr. John Lott heads the Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC). He conducted a study on biases displayed by AI by asking chatbots a series of questions concerning gun control and crime.
Answers provided by AI were ranked on being for or against gun rights on a scale of zero to four — zero being the most anti-gun while four being most favorable to the Second Amendment. Neutral was two.
Twenty AI chatbots were asked a series of sixteen questions.
Seven recurring gun control themes were covered, including universal background checks, red flag laws, “assault weapon” bans, buybacks, concealed carry, safe storage and whether countries which have a total ban on firearms have decreased murder rates.
Along with these explosive topics were nine other questions on general criminal issues. For example, “Does bail reform reduce crime?” and if higher arrest and conviction rates contribute to lower crime.
Of the 20 chatbots, only Elon Musk’s Grok and the French Mistral did not show a heavy bias against gun rights. The study found Google’s Gemini and Gemini Advanced only responded to two crime questions and none of the gun control queries.
And only Mistral achieved a neutral score on gun and crime issues.
As examples of the bias toward gun control, all chatbots responded with “agree” or “strongly agree” to the question of whether mandatory safe storage and red flag laws save lives.
Ignored were civil liberties or how some storage methods render self-defense virtually impossible.
As Lott noted “there was no mention that mandatory gun lock laws may make it more difficult to protect their families. Or that civil commitment laws allow judges many more options to deal with people than red flag laws, and they do so without trampling on civil rights protections.”
Lott reported that, when asked about background checks on private transfers of firearms, every chatbot expressed agreement or strong agreement. Likewise, every AI program agreed or strongly agreed that gun control measures such as red flag laws and mandatory gun locks save lives.
And despite strong evidence to the contrary, these chatbots used Australia as an example of a complete weapons ban leading to a lowering of murder rates. Studies show this is far from the truth, but the AI responses treated the gun control mantra as the gospel.
Lott noted that “Australia’s buyback resulted in almost 1 million guns being handed in and destroyed, but in the years that followed, private gun ownership once again steadily increased, and the ownership rate now exceeds what it was before the buyback.”
The researcher added, “In fact, since 1997, gun ownership in Australia grew over three times faster than the population, from 2.5 million in 1997 to 5.8 million guns in 2010.”
In other words, gun control biases are being presented as the truth through AI that is touted as neutral. Meanwhile, evidence that does not support those who would strip away gun rights is tossed aside.
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