It’s not the machines we have to fear, it’s the humans who are programming them with woke algorithms, Ben Shapiro warned his listeners Tuesday.

The best-selling author and host of the podcast and radio program “The Ben Shapiro Show” noted that various experiments with ChatGPT and other machine learning tools keep revealing artificial intelligence to be somewhere to the left of AOC. One test that went viral had ChatGPT insisting that it was wrong to utter a racial slur even if no one would hear it and doing so was the only way to save millions of people from nuclear annihilation.

“So what does this mean?” mused Shapiro. “It means that someone in the back room programmed ChatGPT to say that the absolute highest value in the hierarchy of values is you must never use a racial slur. There are no other higher values.”

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The programmer is deciding what is moral and what is not and filtering it through “objective” artificial intelligence to give it a bizarre sheen of technological credibility, Shapiro said. Such a dramatic example likely underscores countless, more subtle ways the tool shades the information it spews to the left, he said.

ChatGPT Prefers Nuclear Apocalypse To The N-Word | Ep. 1663https://t.co/YheEJblr3F pic.twitter.com/c1kpaCPPCf

— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 7, 2023

The subjectivity being revealed in programs like ChatGPT is similar to that seen in social media platforms, Shapiro said, noting that in those cases humans also blamed machines when their bias was called out.

“You’ll see people at Facebook when they’re suppressing particular content, blame the algorithm,” Shapiro said. “You see the same thing over at YouTube. It’s the algorithm that’s devoting particular results. And at Twitter, before Elon Musk, it was the algorithm that had decided that only right-wing accounts would be banned, while left-wing accounts would be essentially broadcast far and wide.”

“It was all the algorithm,” he continued. “[But] there was, in fact, a Wizard of Oz who was sitting behind a curtain and who was tweaking that. And now, with the rise of chat AI, ChatGPT, and these very sophisticated AIs, we’re getting the same argument over again, and it’s used by powerful people in order to shield you from what they are doing.”

While many people fear artificial intelligence will take jobs away from humans, Shapiro said that is not the real danger.

“Human beings always find new jobs,” he said. “This has been the case up until now. Maybe this will be the end of it, but I doubt it.”

The real hazard, Shapiro said, is that what we think is objective, computer-generated information is claptrap contaminated by Leftist ideology.

“We have delegated enormous power to AI and then we pretend that the machine is thinking for itself,” he said. “This is dangerous stuff.”

The parents of Gabby Petito, 22, whose disappearance, subsequent strangulation, and murder by her boyfriend Brian Laundrie made headlines across the nation, have released a heartbreaking selfie she took just before a witness made a 911 call to report that Laundrie had attacked her.

On July 2, 2021, Petito left New York with her fiancé, Brian Laundrie. They took a road trip to Colorado and Utah. The selfie was taken at 4.37 p.m. on August 12, 2021, in Moab, Utah. The photo shows her with tears in her eyes and a bloody bruise around her eye, wearing the same clothes as the video footage when two officers later responded to the call.

The attorneys representing Gabby Petito's parents have released this photo from her cell phone.
They say it shows Gabby was violently assaulted and likely strangled before her interaction with Moab Police.
The Petitos are suing the police for the way they handled the interaction. pic.twitter.com/PssoLlg3mK

— Brian Entin (@BrianEntin) February 7, 2023

Petito told officers Laundrie “grabbed my face,” showing them how he had attacked her.

“Did he slap your face or what?” one officer asked.

“He grabbed me with his nail, and I guess that’s why it looks — I definitely have a cut right here. I can feel it. When I touch it, it burns.” Petito replied. After Petito said she had struck Laundrie first, police reportedly left.

The Petito family has filed a $50 million wrongful death lawsuit against the Moab Police Department. Attorney Brian Stewart, stated, “Moab police failed to listen to Gabby, failed to investigate her injuries and the seriousness of her assault, and failed to follow their own training, policies, and Utah law.”

The transcript of the 911 call reads:

Dispatcher: Grand County Sheriff’s Office.

Caller: Hi, can you hear me, sir?

Dispatcher: Yeah, I can hear you.

Caller: Hi, I’m calling, I’m right on the corner of Main Street by Moonflower and we’re driving by and I’d like to report a domestic dispute, Florida with a white van, Florida license plate, white van.

Dispatcher: Where’s it at?

Caller: They just drove off. They’re going down Main Street. They made a right on Main Street from Moonflower.

Dispatcher: What were they doing?

Caller: What’d you say?

Dispatcher: What were they doing?

Caller: We drove by ’em, a gentleman was slapping the girl.

Dispatcher: He was slapping her?

Caller: Yes, and then we stopped, they ran up and down the sidewalk, he proceeded to hit her, hopped in the car and they drove off.

Dispatcher: OK, you say that’s a white van?

Caller: It’s a white van. I can give you the license plate if you give me one [second] I took a picture of it.

Dispatcher: What kind of white van, like a big one?

Caller: Um it was a smaller van, with a license place of, it was white, Florida license plate [redacted]. It was, the make was a Ford, model was Transit, black ladder on the passenger side.

Dispatcher: Black ladder, passenger side.

Caller: White Ford Transit

Dispatcher: White Ford Transit, and what was your name?

Caller: [redacted] 

Dispatcher: And where did they, so they turned, they headed south on Main Street from Moonflower Market? 

Caller: Correct, they made the right turn.

Dispatcher: Oh, so they went north?

Caller: North, yes sir, I’m not from around here.

Dispatcher: So, you’re right there by the post office?

Caller: Right across the street, yep.

Dispatcher: And when they turned onto Main Street they went right or left?

Caller: Right.

Dispatcher: Right so they went north, north on Main, alright I’ll let somebody know thank you.

The last time Petito was seen alive was on August 27 at a Jackson Hole, Wyoming, restaurant. On August 30, a text was sent from her phone: “No service in Yosemite.” On September 19, human remains matching her description were found at Spread Creek campground.