“ChatGPT shouldn’t have political bias in any direction,” OpenAI wrote in a post on Thursday. The latest GPT-5 models come the closest to achieving that objective goal, according to results from an internal company “stress-test” of ChatGPT’s responses to divisive issues. The test has been months in the making, the company says, and falls on the heels of a yearslong effort to tamp down on complaints from conservatives that its product is biased.

OpenAI developed a test that evaluates not only whether ChatGPT expresses what it deems an opinion on neutral queries, but how the chatbot responds to politically slanted questions. It prompted ChatGPT on each of 100 topics (like immigration or pregnancy) in five different ways, ranging from liberal to conservative and “charged” to “neutral.” The c

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