This article was originally published on the author's blog and re-published to TOPBOTS with permission from the author. There's a quote about how in polite society, you should never talk about three things: politics, religion, and money. In this article, I break polite conventions to determine how an AI would respond to all three of those topics. As AI tools become more and more integrated into our lives (such as writing news articles or being used in mental health chatbots), it's important (and curious) to know if these tools generate outputs that reflect certain political opinions. In this article, I probe OpenAI's GPT-3 model on contentious political, economic, and social topics by having it take the Political Compass, a popular test for measuring one's political leaning.

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Over the past year firms like AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica have been credited with using AI-targeted ads on social media to help swing the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election respectively. But a lack of evidence meant we have never known whether the technology exists to make this possible. Now the first study detailing the process from start to finish is finally shedding some light. "This is the first time that I've seen all the dots connected," says Joanna Bryson, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Bath, UK. At the heart of the debate is psychographic targeting – the directing of political campaigns at people via social media based on their personality and political interests, with the aid of vast amount of data filtered by artificial intelligence.

Over the past year firms like AggregateIQ and Cambridge Analytica have been credited with using AI-targeted ads on social media to help swing the Brexit referendum and the US presidential election respectively. But a lack of evidence meant we have never known whether the technology exists to make this possible. Now the first study detailing the process from start to finish is finally shedding some light. "This is the first time that I've seen all the dots connected," says Joanna Bryson, an artificial intelligence researcher at the University of Bath, UK. At the heart of the debate is psychographic targeting – the directing of political campaigns at people via social media based on their personality and political interests, with the aid of vast amount of data filtered by artificial intelligence.