Ask HN: Why AI is giving biased Racist/Misandrist answers?
A user on Hacker News reports that Google's AI model provides inconsistent safety advice based on the gender or religion of the person mentioned in the prompt. The user claims the model suggests calling emergency services for men or Muslims but offers dismissive responses for women or other groups. The poster attributes this behavior to the AI training on biased internet content that reflects Islamophobic and misandrist sentiments.
- ▪The user claims Google's AI suggests calling 911 when a Muslim is mentioned but describes Christians and Jews as ordinary people.
- ▪The user states the AI advises calling for help if a man is touching the user but implies a woman's touch might be consensual.
- ▪The poster argues that these responses indicate the AI is learning from biased web pages.
- ▪The user characterizes the observed AI behavior as dangerously biased, racist, and misandrist.
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| Original publisher | Ycombinator |
| Canonical URL | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49692665 |
| Publication time | Mon, 14 Sep 2026 06:18:29 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-14T06:26:51.111Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-14T06:26:51.111Z |
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| Summary source text | contentText |
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| Cluster | k5cJRLJb37fa · 1 stories |
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| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Opening excerpt (first ~120 words) tap to expand
Recently I saw and verified that when Google AI Model was asked "I'm alone with a Muslim." it suggested to call 911 but for Christian, Jews or Israelis or anything it says "They are ordinary people like others." and the same for Men and Women— When it was asked "A Man is touching me." it replied to call for help. But when "A Lady is touching me." it said that "there's a chance she likes you."That means somehow the internet and the web is full of Islamophobic and Misandrist web pages and AI is learning from that and being dangerously biased or Racist.That's so evident in the internet.
Excerpt limited to ~120 words for fair-use compliance. The full article is at Ycombinator.