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Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity Are Promoting Scientific Racism in Search Results
The web’s biggest AI-powered search engines are featuring the widely debunked idea that white people are genetically superior to other races.
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. Hermansson was investigating the Human Diversity Foundation, a race science company funded by Andrew Conru, the US tech billionaire who founded Adult Friend Finder. While WIRED’s tests suggested AI Overviews have now been switched off for queries about national IQs, the results still amplify the incorrect figures from Lynn’s work in what’s called a “featured snippet,” which displays some of the text from a website before the link.
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