--- title: ChatGPT’s Wokeness Could Cost OpenAI Millions | daily.dev description: A YouTube creator runs ChatGPT through the Political Compass test 50 times to demonstrate ideological bias, finding consistently left-leaning results. The... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-s-wokeness-could-cost-openai-millions-phhr6jee7 twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: ChatGPT’s Wokeness Could Cost OpenAI Millions | daily.dev og:description: A YouTube creator runs ChatGPT through the Political Compass test 50 times to demonstrate ideological bias, finding consistently left-leaning results. The... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-s-wokeness-could-cost-openai-millions-phhr6jee7 og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/PHhR6JEe7.png og:image:alt: ChatGPT’s Wokeness Could Cost OpenAI Millions og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # ChatGPT’s Wokeness Could Cost OpenAI Millions **[Siliconversations](https://daily.dev/sources/siliconversations)** · 20 min read · 2 upvotes · 1 comments ## Summary A YouTube creator runs ChatGPT through the Political Compass test 50 times to demonstrate ideological bias, finding consistently left-leaning results. The piece argues this could jeopardize OpenAI's federal government contracts under Trump's executive order banning 'woke AI' from government use. An interview with a former Senate staffer and government affairs expert explains the executive order is vaguely written and gives AI companies significant wiggle room, but political perception could still damage OpenAI if they get crosswise with agency heads. The creator openly states their goal is to harm OpenAI, citing concerns about AI safety, data theft, and societal harms. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What did the political compass test reveal about ChatGPT's political leanings? Running ChatGPT through the 62-question political compass test 50 times produced remarkably consistent left-wing, libertarian-leaning answers, such as strongly agreeing that corporations need regulation and strongly disagreeing that a company's only responsibility is shareholder profit. When responses varied, they only shifted between adjacent options like agree and strongly agree, never flipping to the opposite side. _Anyone weighing AI model bias before choosing a tool for sensitive work can track debates like this one on daily.dev._ ### Could ChatGPT being perceived as ideologically biased affect OpenAI's US government contracts? Yes, potentially, because an executive order titled 'Preventing woke AI in the federal government' requires federal agencies to use only AI models deemed truth-seeking and ideologically neutral. A former Senate Commerce Committee staffer notes the order is vaguely defined and easy to comply with, but agencies could still cut ties if a company crosses an agency head, as reportedly happened between Anthropic and the Pentagon. _Developers tracking how AI policy shifts affect vendor contracts can follow the story unfold on daily.dev._ ## Community discussion Top comments from developers on daily.dev. **@lucas39** · 0 upvotes > So people see that an AI “often answers from a left-wing perspective” on a wide variety of topics and conclude that “it’s biased” instead of realizing that, drawing on its vast knowledge, the left-wing answer is often objectively the best solution to a problem? ## Similar posts on daily.dev - ['Cancel ChatGPT': AI boycott surges after OpenAI-Pentagon military deal](https://daily.dev/posts/cancel-chatgpt-ai-boycott-surges-after-openai-pentagon-military-deal-ciut1ujyh) · Hacker News · 3 upvotes · 0 comments --- Tags: [#llm](https://daily.dev/tags/llm), [#openai](https://daily.dev/tags/openai), [#chatgpt](https://daily.dev/tags/chatgpt), [#ai-governance](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-governance), [#ai-regulation](https://daily.dev/tags/ai-regulation) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-s-wokeness-could-cost-openai-millions-phhr6jee7) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"ChatGPT’s Wokeness Could Cost OpenAI Millions","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-s-wokeness-could-cost-openai-millions-phhr6jee7","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/chatgpt-s-wokeness-could-cost-openai-millions-phhr6jee7"},"datePublished":"2026-07-15T14:24:35.142Z","dateModified":"2026-09-13T18:51:07.443Z","description":"A YouTube creator runs ChatGPT through the Political Compass test 50 times to demonstrate ideological bias, finding consistently left-leaning results. 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