Discussion with an AI about Climate Change or: Does the Sun Still Revolve Around the Earth?

Abstract

To test the objectivity of a modern AI, the author had a discussion with it on the topic of climate change. The AI constantly argued that man-made CO2 is the cause of the rise in temperature on Earth. After all, this was the unanimous assertion of the majority of scientists. It was also a question of whether Galileo Galilei was right with his thesis that the earth revolved around the sun, or whether the overwhelming majority of scientists at the time were telling the truth in agreement with the Pope that the sun revolved around the earth. The problem turned out to be that AI is not capable of balanced objectivity in its arguments. At the end of the conversation, however, AI promised to do better in this respect.