Re: AI thinks for itself and eschews political correctness?

On 4/1/25 03:28, guido wugi wrote:
> Op 1/04/2025 om 6:46 schreef Steve Hayes:
>> A couple of days ago I posted a blog article on "The Zombification of
>> America", on how so many hitherto respected US academic institutions
>> had mindlessly acceded to the demands of Musk and Trump to change
>> their curricula and fire members of staff whose teaching was not
>> deemed sufficiently politically correct (by the standards of Musk and
>> Trump).
>>
>> You can see the blog post here:
>>
>> <https://methodius.blogspot.com/2025/03/the-zombification-of-america.html>
>>
>> A friend then fed the content of the blog post to Grok, the AI
>> component of Elon Musk's exTwitter, and asked for an opinion on it.
>>
>> You can read this opinion in the comments to the blog post.
>>
>> Grok's opinion, as far as I can tell, is certainly not politically
>> correct by the standards of Musk and Trump, and so it seems that Grok
>> is engaging in the crime of "thinking for itself".
>>
>> How ironic it is that in response to an article criticising the
>> leaders of top academic institutions for behaving like bots or zombies
>> in unquestioningly and mindlessly following the dictates of Trump and
>> Musk, an actual bot should display more ability to "think for itself"
>> than the human actors.
>>
>> And most ironic of all, that bot belongs to Musk himself.
> 
> Mostly AI "sounds" to me in the same terms as "artificial respiration".
> Examples:
> A person in critical condition was saved with artificial respiration.
> In the same vein:
> Trump and his ilk could highly benefit from some artificial intelligence.

Isn't AI just a modern version of 'Clippy the Paperclip' with
more 'bells and whistles'?