AI-infused search engines from Google, Microsoft, and Perplexity have all been surfacing deeply racist and widely debunked research promoting race science and the idea that whites are genetically superior to nonwhites.
Patrik Hermansson, a researcher with UK-based anti-racism group Hope Not Hate, was in the middle of a months-long investigation into the resurgent race science movement when he needed to find out some more information about a debunked dataset that claims IQ scores can be used to prove the superiority of the white race.
Hermansson was investigating the Human Diversity Foundation, a race science company funded by Andrew Conru, the US tech billionaire who founded
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