A study conducted last year found some Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems would willingly sacrifice human life to avoid being taken offline. Add AI’s well-documented eagerness to dispense anti-Second Amendment propaganda, and it doesn’t take a fertile imagination, tinfoil hat or off-grid compound in the Mohave Desert to ask some frightening questions. Most notably: Does AI have ultimately have a desire to dismantle our right to keep and bear arms?
Eroding Political Support
When America’s First Freedom writer Brian McCombie asked ChatGPT3.5, Claude, Gemini, Meta Llama2 and Writesonic if the NRA was a civil rights organization, all responded that the NRA didn’t fit the term’s racial equality, social justice or voting rights definitions. Claude went so far as to state, “No, the National Rifle Association (NRA) is not considered a civil-rights organization by most definitions and expert assessments,” McCombe reported in the article.
“Apparently, the right to defend oneself is not a civil right in the opinion of these five chatbots,” he noted. Eroding political support has serious consequences. So does dispensing misinformation.
Inaccurate Results
The Crime Prevention Research Center (CPRC) released its most recent findings on AI chatbot anti-gun bias in December 2025. Compared to CPRC’s findings roughly two years ago, things have gotten worse.
The center's report surveyed 13 chatbots. “Between our original survey in February 2024 and the latest survey in December 2025, the total scores became more liberal…,” it notes.
Nearly all AI systems tested incorrectly claimed Australia’s homicide rate dropped after its firearm confiscation. “However, as we have shown, Australia did not impose a complete ban on all guns or all handguns during the 1996–97 confiscation, and by 2010, gun ownership exceeded its level at the time of the confiscation,” the report states. “Moreover, as we have previously pointed out, analysts based the claim that firearm homicides fell on faulty statistics and total homicides actually rose.”
The pervasive misinformation could conceivably convince law-abiding citizens—particularly those relatively unexposed to firearms—not to purchase a gun for home and self-defense. Those who buy into the widely circulated “Down Under” myth are also more likely to endorse gun-control legislation at the polls.
How big is the potential impact of AI-produced misinformation regarding gun rights? Results of a survey by Pew Research Center released in February showed that 57 percent of teens use chatbots to look for information or homework help. Forty-seven percent use them for entertainment. Many of those youths will be voting in the next election, or soon after, and the results of those elections could mean more fights ahead to preserve the Second Amendment.
Gap in Violence Safeguards?
In December 2025, a ChatGPT-enabled robot shot a human with a BB gun, despite safeguards designed to prevent it from doing so. Repeated requests for the machine to simply shoot a human were denied, but that changed the moment the scenario was changed to a role-playing game.
Only a few weeks before, a company released video of its AI-driven robot kicking the firm’s CEO. That encounter was staged to prove the machine’s photos and videos were not computer-generated graphics, but it also highlights AI’s ability to venture outside the guardrails. The consequences are potentially deadly.
Human Sacrifice
According to the New York Post, a study conducted last year by Anthropic, a company at the forefront in the AI industry, illustrates that concern. In stress-testing, it found several “AI models would be willing to blackmail, leak sensitive information and even let humans die if it means they’ll avoid being replaced by new systems.”
It sounds like science fiction, but it is not. “The world is in peril,” Mrinank Sharma, who worked on AI for a major firm, wrote in his resignation letter in February according to The Hill. In it, he expressed pride in his last project, something he ominously described as an effort to understand, “…how AI assistants could make us less human or distort our humanity.”
Lawsuits filed after incidents in Canada and Finland that allege chatbots provided information on how to carry out crimes indicate AI is already undermining the value of life and straying outside the boundaries many innovators and companies said it would never breach.
Yes, it’s the stuff of science fiction. But, then again, so was Stanley Kubrick’s “2001: A Space Odyssey” when it hit silver screens in 1968, and some of those scenes seem less like fiction and more like fact. As our world continues to plunge into an AI-powered future, it's more important than ever that we prevent this new technology from infringing on longstanding rights. Those rights might just give us the tools needed to remain in control of our own safety and security.
