So apparently, MIT just dropped a study confirming that AI—brace yourself—doesn’t actually have values.
Gasp.
Shock.
Cue the collective eye roll of everyone who has ever shouted at their phone for autocorrecting “love” to “live.”
According to TechCrunch, this groundbreaking revelation came from a team of MIT researchers who decided to formally investigate what most of us already kind of knew deep in our bones: AI systems don’t magically come with morals, ethics, or a burning desire to make the world a better place. They’re not our robot besties with perfect judgment. They’re glorified probability machines regurgitating patterns from data sets—data sets that came from, well, us. Flawed, beautiful, messy humans.
The study shows that AI systems like ChatGPT or image generators don’t have values unless they’re explicitly programmed or trained to reflect certain ones. And even then, it’s more of a clumsy mimicry than actual understanding. A parrot saying “thank you” doesn’t mean the parrot is polite. Same deal.
This feels a bit like saying, “We’ve conducted a lengthy study and can now confirm that Roombas don’t love you back.”
MIT’s team explored how AI seems to reflect “values,” but in reality, it’s just pattern replication with a really fancy name. When AI tools give responses that sound moral or ethical, that’s not because the system believes anything. It’s because it’s been trained to sound like it does. Kinda like that friend who nods through your entire TED Talk on clean eating just to get back to their French fries.
And yet… we keep asking these systems to make decisions that require nuance, compassion, and context. It’s like giving a calculator a paintbrush and hoping for the Mona Lisa.
So, the moral of the story? AI doesn’t care. It doesn’t think. It doesn’t feel. It processes. It mimics. It spits out patterns. If you want real values, you’re still stuck with us humans—messy as we are.
Want to see the full article for yourself? Check it out here: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/09/mit-study-finds-that-ai-doesnt-in-fact-have-values
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