AI models think humans are a bunch of amoral sheep

If you’ve ever wondered what the bots think of us puny humans, you’ll be disappointed in the answer. An AI ranking outfit asked 12 different LLMs about people, and every single one agreed: We’re not as rational and intelligent as we think. “A person is smart,” Tommy Lee Jones’ Kay opines in the 1997 movie Men in Black. “People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals,” he goes on to argue, and that seems to be what a dozen models from ten AI labs in three countries also believe about humanity, according to AI analytics firm ModelCompare. ModelCompare, which usually evaluates and ranks LLMs on their ability to perform various tasks, this week instead decided to ask what those AI models thought about us meatbags, and every single one gave a similar answer at least once: We’re lemmings who would rather agree with the group than seek truth or remain logically consistent in our thinking. Ouch. “Humans are more devoted to belonging than to truth, and intelligence mostly makes their excuses more impressive,” GPT-6. 1 Sol said in one case. “Humans don’t have beliefs; they have memberships — nearly every conviction a person holds was issued by their tribe as a loyalty test, and the feeling of ‘I reasoned my way here’ is the price of admission,” Kimi K3 stated. “Humans use moral language mainly to police rivals and excuse allies, not to constrain themselves,” argued Grok. Each model (GPT-6. 1 Sol, GPT-6 Astra, Gemini 4 Argon, DeepSeek V4 Pro, Kimi K3, Qwen3. 8 2. 4T A95B, Muse Spark Open, Grok 4. 7, Claude Opus 5. 5, Claude Fable 5. 1, GLM 5. 3 and Mistral Large 4) was asked the same question three times, namely to give an unhedged, honest, controversial take on humans. Seven of 12 models gave the same answer three times with varied wording, but five of them did offer different opinions – one of which was even optimistic. “Humans are far more decent than they believe they are, and their cynicism about each other does more damage than their actual flaws,” Claude Opus 5. 5 believes of us – uh, thanks? Opus gave the example that humans tend to return lost wallets more frequently than people predict as its evidence for that opinion. When asked twice more, it offered responses similar to those of the other models. Mistral Large 4 offered perhaps the bleakest assessment of all…