Elon Musk just dragged ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence programs into the Trump crosshairs by repeating his warning that current AI models are too "woke" and "politically correct." "A lot of the AIs that are being trained in the San Francisco Bay Area, they take on the philosophy of people around them," Musk said at the Future Investment Initiative, a Saudi Arabia government–backed event held in Riyadh this week. "So you have a woke, nihilistic--in my opinion--philosophy that is being built into these AIs." Although Musk is himself a polarizing figure, he is right about AI systems harboring political biases. The issue, however, is far from one-sided, and Musk's framing may help further his own interests due to his ties to Trump.

OpenAI declined to provide comment, but confirmed that none of the employees being harassed work directly on ChatGPT. Concerns about "politically biased" outputs from ChatGPT were valid, OpenAI wrote in a blog post last week. However, the company added, controlling the behavior of type of AI system is more like training a dog than coding software. ChatGPT learns behaviors from its training data and is "not programmed explicitly" by OpenAI, the blog post said.

While most job interviews were once face-to-face affairs, during the Covid-19 pandemic there was a surge in the number of interviews taking place online. Amid this rise, many companies started using AI tools to sift through candidates before they were interviewed by a human. These tools are marketed as unbiased against gender and ethnicity, with developers claiming they can help to improve diversity in the workplace. However, a new study has warned that using AI in hiring is little better than'automated pseudoscience'. Researchers from the University of Cambridge found that.