The AI Fundamentalists
The AI Fundamentalists
Dr. Andrew Clark & Dr. Sid Mangalik
Exploring political bias and persuasion in LLMs with Dr. Jillian Fisher
35 minutes Posted Jul 21, 2026 at 9:00 pm.
What We’re Reading Right Now
Defining Political Bias In LLMs
How Bias Shows Up In Outputs
Do Biased Models Change Users
Why True Neutrality Breaks Down
Reasonable Pluralism And Transparency Options
Refusal, Safety, And Bad Faith Prompts
Persuasion And The AI Authority Effect
AI Literacy That Actually Helps
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In this episode of The AI Fundamentalists, hosts Andrew and Sid are joined by AI alignment and safety researcher Dr. Jillian Fisher to unpack the complex realities of political bias in Large Language Models. Dr. Fisher explains that bias isn't just a byproduct of noisy training data; it is also embedded directly into the architectural choices of the models, such as relying on a "majority vote" mechanism to determine the right answer. The conversation explores why achieving true political neut...