AI and the New “Golden Rule”: Finding the Middle Ground

Why Does “Big AI” Tend Toward Extremes?   Large language models, or LLMs—the kind of AI that powers tools like ChatGPT—are trained by scanning huge amounts of text from the internet. They’re good at predicting the next word in a sentence, but because the internet is messy, they also learn its flaws.   That means these systems can sometimes reproduce toxic speech, repeat harmful stereotypes, or echo the loudest extremes of online debate.   “Current LLM-based tools tend to be similar in terms of their behavior and responses,” Davulcu says. “It’s not like a winner is emerging. They will need an edge. That edge is going to come from interpretability. […]