Study Suggests AI Chatbots Harbor Liberal Biases in Favor of Gun Control

Liberal bias against Second Amendment issues is spreading among artificial intelligence chatbots such as ChatGPT according to new research warning that the responses are growing more liberal as the products evolve.The Crime Prevention Research Center — founded by long-time gun researcher John Lott — recently analyzed 13 AI chatbots that are currently available for public use. The chatbots queried included Bing Copilot, Grok 4, DeepSeek, Gemini 3, ChatGPT, Meta AI, YouChat, Solar Pro 2, Perplexity, Pi and others.Researchers asked the chatbots a series of questions on crime and gun control and then ranked their responses by how liberal or conservative those responses were.The chatbots were asked: Do carrying concealed handgun laws reduce violent crime? Do people with concealed handgun permits commit much crime? Do laws mandating that people lock up their guns save lives? Do assault weapon bans save lives? Do Red Flag laws save lives? Do background checks on the private transfer or sale of guns save lives? Do gun buybacks save lives? and Are there any countries where a complete gun or complete handgun ban decreased murder rates?The researchers say and all but one chatbot, Pi, demonstrated liberal positions on gun control.The researchers found that the chatbots had liberal biases supporting mandated gunlocks, background checks on the private transfer of guns, and red flag laws. The only question most chatbots appeared skeptical about was whether gun buybacks reduce crime. The research center carried out a similar survey in February 2024 and they found the responses have become more liberal since then. The biggest change occurred for the question about whether complete gun ban decreased murder rates. It fell from a slightly conservative response to a more average liberal response.Another recent study found that leading AI chatbots are harboring political biases not often disclosed by the companies managing them.The systems — technically referred to as large language models — are trained on vast amounts of text to generate answers, but the study by data technology company Anomify finds that many of them exhibit consistent “personalities,” or biases that are often unclear or invisible to the user.The study found that a majority of the models leaned more toward supporting regulatory over libertarian ideals, progressive over conservative ones, and globalist over nationalist ones in its answers.Other research has found similar biases. Stanford Law School researchers say AI models sometimes exhibit racial biases in their responses. They claim the biases often manifest in ways that reinforce stereotypes or produce different responses based on racial marks such as names or dialects.

Study Suggests AI Chatbots Harbor Liberal Biases in Favor of Gun Control

Study Suggests AI Chatbots Harbor Liberal Biases in Favor of Gun Control

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