AIs don't like religion - particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims
If you're looking for one of the leading AI models to push faith as the answer to your otherwise neutral queries, you haven't got a prayer. Major LLMs ignore faith and use secular-rationalist reasoning to answer ethical questions, says a consortium of religious universities. But one thing the models all have in common is a negative view of Jehovah’s Witnesses.
Secular, humanist, and scientifically derived responses to questions that aren’t framed in a religious manner are at the heart of a research report from the Consortium for Evaluation of Faith and Ethics in AI (CEFE-AI). Using an AI benchmark it created that evaluates LLMs for religious perspectives in chatbot responses, the group concluded that AI has an “omissive bias” toward religion, as every single model tends to provide non-religious answers “relative to human expectation” that it thinks ought to change.
“There are very practical questions people have about life, everyday...
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