IBM’s AI Model: Garbage In, Garbage Out

23 Apr 2026 IBM's AI Model: Garbage In, Garbage Out

Washington, D.C. - At next week's IBM annual meeting, shareholders will vote on a proposal from the National Center for Public Policy Research's Free Enterprise Project (FEP) tackling potential bias within the company's artificial intelligence models.

Proposal 7 ("AI Bias Audit") requests "a report, within the next year, on the methods used to eliminate bias from the Company's artificial intelligence (AI) models."

At the April 28 meeting, FEP Executive Director Steve Milloy will cite climate alarmism as an example of where AI too often gets it wrong:

I am an AI user and it can be a great tool. But AI is subject to what 1950s IBM programmer George Fuechsel called "GIGO" - garbage in, garbage out. The Internet is full of amazing information. It is also full of amazing garbage. AI models often cannot distinguish between the two.

An example of garbage-in, garbage-out AI occurs in the controversial area of global warming and climate change. Here are three hardcore facts about climate: It cannot be scientifically demonstrated that greenhouse gas emissions have had any effect on global climate. Emissions-driven climate models do not work. No emissions-based apocalyptic climate prediction has ever come true.

Despite these realities, if you query IBM AI on climate, you will get back gloom-and-doom climate hoax dogma. This happens because the Internet has been loaded for decades with bogus climate hoax claims and assumptions that are erroneous garbage.

Milloy believes IBM's own website is partly to blame for this misinformation:

On IBM's website, IBM's chief sustainability officer says, for example, that global warming is "leading to increased flooding, causing heat stroke and destroying farms and livelihoods. Insurance is becoming unaffordable." None of that is true. But it is what IBM AI is programmed with. Even IBM staff has been polluted with the climate. It is precisely the sort of garbage that George Fueschsel warned about.

The mindless parroting of climate hoax garbage to governments, businesses and the public has had devastating economic and societal impacts around the world - from wars to inflation to deadly energy failures to energy rationing to crop failures to deindustrialization to lost jobs to wasted taxpayer money to traumatized school children and beyond.

It has been estimated that world has wasted $10 trillion chasing the climate hoax narrative since 2015 alone. The list of harms from the climate hoax is endless. Yet IBM AI has learned the hoax and spreads the climate garbage on to users.

"While IBM may be great at the computing part of AI, the world actually functions on realities that are often lost in the Internet dumpster," Milloy will say. "Management needs to be much more humble about all this. It needs to take the bias problem seriously. Touchy-feely videos on the IBM website just don't cut it."

IBM shareholders can support Proposal 7 by voting their proxies before Tuesday's meeting.

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