ChatGPT: Smart Enough Not to Defend the Warren Commission
ChatGPT: Smart Enough Not to Defend the Warren Commission
What artificial intelligence tells us about JFK's assassination
I asked the OpenAI’s revolutionary software, ChatGPT, the inevitable question haunting American political culture (and Tucker Carlson): “So who killed President John F. Kennedy?"
The answer is a model of lucidity and balance.
President John F. Kennedy was assassinated on November 22, 1963. Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder, but the circumstances surrounding the assassination, including whether or not Oswald acted alone, have been the subject of much debate and conspiracy theories. The Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald was the lone gunman. However, many people do not believe the Warren Commission's findings and believe that there was a larger conspiracy at play.
ChatGPT has surmounted one hurdle. It has proven itself smart enough not to defend the Warren Commission.
Follow-Up Question
Then I asked ChatGPT, “Was Lee Harvey Oswald guilty of killing President Kennedy?”
This answer was even smarter.
Lee Harvey Oswald was charged with the murder of President John F. Kennedy, but he was never put on trial as he was killed by Jack Ruby while in police custody. The Warren Commission, established by President Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination, concluded that Oswald acted alone in the assassination of President Kennedy. However, many people do not believe the Warren Commission's findings and believe that there was a larger conspiracy at play.
It is also worth noting that Lee Harvey Oswald consistently denied any involvement in the assassination of President Kennedy until his death.
It is worth noting that most mainstream news organization mostly ignore the point that ChatGPT makes. For example, in a 2017 story about Oswald’s final days, the editors of the Washington Post deliberately omitted Oswald’s denial, an embarrassing journalistic failure that indicates bias.
Artificial Intelligence has surmounted a second hurdle. On the question of Lee Harvey Oswald’s guilt, ChatGPT is smarter than the editors of the Washington Post.
The first sentence of Wikipedia’s English-language page for Lee Harvey Oswald says: “Lee Harvey Oswald (October 18, 1939 – November 24, 1963) was a U.S. Marine veteran who assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th President of the United States, on November 22, 1963.”
I did a random survey of Wiki’s pages on Oswald in other languages, used Google Translate, and couldn’t find ONE that said this. All referred to Oswald as the government’s “chief suspect” or the man “accused by the Warren Commission” or something else with a qualifier. Since Wiki’s biggest English-reading audience by far is the US, this suggests something about the way the narrative on the assassination is controlled internationally.
Once I attempted to “edit” the English-language Oswald page to reflect a more objective description of the accused assassin. The rebuff from the faceless “moderator” was resolute and ruthless. I was told I had “no right” to edit the page, even though I’ve edited many Wiki pages without any contest or controversy.
ChatGPT reflects the studied belligerence of the authorities (government officials, Media, educators) where the only “conspiracy” considered (and even stressed - there are repeated references to “lone gunman”, “acted alone”, “larger conspiracy”) is whether Oswald had associates, and where any consideration, discussion, or even acknowledgment of conspiracy to frame or set up Oswald to take the fall and the blame for the crime as the patsy is strictly forbidden.