AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have all been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race sci

Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results

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2024-10-24 12:30:02

AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have all been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race science and the idea that whites are genetically superior to nonwhites.

Patrik Hermansson, a researcher with UK-based anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, was in the middle of a months-long investigation into the resurgent race science movement when he needed to find out some more information about a debunked dataset that claims IQ scores can be used to prove the superiority of the white race.

Hermansson was investigating the Human Diversity Foundation, a race science company funded by Andrew Conru, the US tech billionaire who founded Adult Friend Finder. The group, founded in 2022, was the successor to the Pioneer Fund, a group founded by US Nazi sympathizers in 1937 with the aim of promoting “race betterment” and “race realism.”

Hermansson logged onto Google and began looking up results for the IQs of different nations. When he typed in “Pakistan IQ,” rather than getting a typical list of links, Hermansson was presented with Google’s AI-powered Overview tool, which, confusingly to him, was on by default. It gave him a definitive answer of 80.