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The episode discusses a study on AI's religious biases and its implications on communication and ethics.

Back in May, Brigham Young University published the results of a study about AI and religion. The study found that all major AI chatbots would not mention faith in responses to questions in which a well-rounded response probably ought to have included religious or spiritual ideas. Questioning AI about ethics, human suffering and morality will almost never result in a response that includes a religious perspective. In addition to a lack of religious references, the study also determined that the AI models had clear biases against certain religious groups. Among the tested models, the researchers found that Grok had the strongest biases, holding a more negative view of Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’i, and Hindus. On the flip side, the researchers found that Meta and Anthropic had the least biased models. So what do we do with all of this? At the rate AI is developing, it’s increasingly more difficult to see a world where it doesn’t affect the way we think and talk with each other—actually, there’s data to show that it already is affecting our language. And, though it is changing our speech, its foundation is still deeply human. AI models have actually built themselves on combing…

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Organizations: Brigham Young University, Grok, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Baha’i, Hindus, Meta, Anthropic

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