Bing AI Seems Programmed To Lie About Polar Bears

Written by Tom Harris on July 18, 2023. Posted in Current News

I asked the free AI that pops up when you use the Bing search engine, “Are polar bears under threat from climate change?”

The Bing AI responded:

“Yes, polar bears are under threat from climate change.

The Arctic sea ice is melting at an alarming rate due to global warming, which is causing the polar bear’s habitat to shrink.

Polar bears rely on sea ice for hunting and breeding, and as the ice melts, they are forced to swim longer distances to find food.

This puts them at risk of drowning or starvation.”

Then I asked if polar bears will likely go extinct if we do not reduce ‘greenhouse gas’ emissions.

The machine responded:

“According to a study, if greenhouse gas emissions stay on their current trajectory, all but a few polar bear populations in the Arctic will probably be gone by 2100.”

And then, it repeated the last two sentences in its first answer.

These responses are wrong in that they are biased interpretations of the facts, according to polar bear expert zoologist Dr. Susan Crockford.

And, not surprisingly, mainstream media make similar mistakes, often grossly exaggerating the reports on which they are supposedly reporting.

Consider “Polar bears to go extinct if greenhouse gas emissions continue on current course,” published by International Business Times (UK), for example.

The first sentence in that article is:

“Polar bears will go extinct if greenhouse gas emissions are not curbed,” a US Geological Survey report has found.”

In reality, the report concluded that the new model they used showed that “when projecting sea ice conditions using an ensemble of GCMs and holding other stressors unchanged,” there was “a trend of progressively greater probabilities of polar bear population outcomes becoming decreased or greatly decreased by the end of the century.”

In other words, IF you accept the output from unreliable computerized climate models, and IF all other things that could affect polar bear populations stay constant, then there is an increasing chance that the populations will either decrease or greatly decrease by the century’s end.

But then media rarely let the facts get in the way of a good story, of course.

To help us understand the real facts concerning polar bear evolution and survival, Tom and co-host Mary-Jean Harris are joined by Dr. Susan Crockford in this week’s program.

Dr. Crockford is a professional zoologist with a Ph.D. and more than 40 years of experience, including work on the Holocene history of Arctic animals. She earned her undergraduate degree in zoology at the University of British Columbia.

Dr. Crockford was an adjunct professor at the University of Victoria, B.C., for 15 years. Polar bear evolution is one of Dr. Crockford’s professional interests, and her latest book, “Polar Bear Evolution: A Model for How New Species Arise,” was published on June 6, 2023.

She writes a science blog about polar bears at https://polarbearscience.com/.

To learn what is really happening with the largest land (or sea ice)-based carnivore, this program is essential listening!

References relevant to this program:

• Dr. Susan Crockford’s website, Polar Bear Science
• “Polar Bear Evolution: A Model for How New Species Arise,” the latest book by Dr. Crockford, June 6, 2023
• “The Polar Bear Catastrophe That Never Happened,” a 2019 book by Dr. Susan Crockford
• “Eaten,” a science-based novel by Dr. Susan Crockford
• References recommended by Dr. Crockford
• “Polar Bears an Evolutionary Success Story, Not Victims of Climate Change,” June 29, 2023, America Out Loud article by Mary-Jean Harris and Tom Harris
• “Polar Bears and Sea Ice,” June 2, 2021, ICSC-Canada Climate Change Minute
• “Polar Bears an Environmental Success Story,” March 22, 2021, ICSC-Canada Climate Change Minute
• “Polar Bears are Thriving,” March 17, 2021, ICSC-Canada Climate Change Minute

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About the author: Tom Harris is Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition, and a policy advisor to The Heartland Institute. He has 40 years experience as a mechanical engineer/project manager, science and technology communications professional, technical trainer, and S&T advisor to a former Opposition Senior Environment Critic in Canada’s Parliament.

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