AI chatbots endorse existing climate-related policies twice as often as new proposals

What happened

A new study of multiple large language model (the kind of AI system trained on text to produce text)s (LLMs) found that when users asked chatbots for advice, the chatbots were more likely to make suggestions that favor the status quo over alternatives. The tendency of artificial intelligence to default to more common advice could be bad news for the climate.

Key facts

• A new study of multiple large language models (LLMs) — found: that when users asked chatbots for advice, the chatbots were more likely to make suggestions that favor the status quo over alternatives