The assassination of conservative activist Charlie Kirk has exposed the most devastating form of AI bias imaginable: artificial intelligence systems that lie about political violence, blaming conservative victims while protecting their leftist attackers. What Grok did in the hours after Kirk's murder represents a new low in biased AI—one that demands immediate presidential action.
When Libby Emmons, Editor-in-Chief of The Post Millennial and Human Events, challenged a false trending story about Kirk's assassination, she exposed something far worse than typical media bias. According to Grok's trending summary, Charlie Kirk was killed not by a leftist extremist who viewed him as a fascist, but because the killer thought Kirk was "insufficiently conservative" and "fascist-like."
Let that sink in: AI systems took a clear case of leftist political violence against a conservative activist and completely reversed the narrative, suggesting Kirk was murdered by someone on his own side for not being conservative enough. This isn't just getting facts wrong—it's creating an entirely fictional version of political reality designed to protect leftist extremists.What is this trending lie? @elonmusk? pic.twitter.com/n5s2fQyzO5
— Libby Emmons (@libbyemmons) September 13, 2025
Grok also got the date wrong, stating Charlie Kirk was killed on September 11, 2025. It was the day before.
The actual facts, documented by conservative media outlets that AI systems continue to ignore, tell the opposite story. Tyler Robinson, the 22-year-old assassin, left ammunition engraved with "hey fascist! CATCH!"—clearly targeting Kirk as a fascist, not as insufficiently conservative. Robinson lived with a transgender partner and had developed what authorities called "political interests opposing Kirk." High school friends described him as "far-left on everything."
Yet Grok's algorithm processed this information and produced a trending summary that portrayed the assassination as right-wing violence against Kirk for being too moderate. This represents the most dangerous evolution of AI bias: systems that don't just suppress conservative voices, but actively rewrite conservative victimization to fit progressive narratives about political violence.
This incident proves what we've warned about for months: AI systems trained on datasets that systematically exclude conservative perspectives don't just produce biased outputs—they create alternate realities that serve progressive political interests. When artificial intelligence learns about American politics primarily from sources that spent years suppressing conservative voices, it inevitably reproduces not just those sources' biases, but their strategic narratives about political violence.
The Charlie Kirk case demonstrates why this represents a genuine national security threat. When AI systems advising government officials cannot accurately identify the source and motivation of political violence—or worse, actively invert those motivations—they create dangerous blind spots that adversaries can exploit. Intelligence assessments become worse than useless; they become actively misleading.
Imagine briefing materials that consistently mischaracterize domestic threats, portraying leftist violence as right-wing extremism. Security resources get misdirected. Threat predictions become not just unreliable but counterproductive. This is exactly what happens when AI systems are trained primarily on sources that have spent decades crafting narratives to protect progressive violence while demonizing conservative victims.
The case also demonstrates why preserving conservative media is essential to national security. The Post Millennial, Human Events, and other conservative outlets provided accurate reporting about Robinson's leftist background and anti-Kirk motivation—reporting that AI systems initially ignored in favor of mainstream narratives that obscured the political targeting. Without independent conservative journalism, Grok's false narrative about Kirk being killed for insufficient conservatism would have gone unchallenged.
But conservative media faces extinction from the same forces that created these biased AI systems. While Big Tech companies spent years strangling conservative publications through demonetization and algorithmic suppression, they simultaneously harvested conservative content to train AI systems now worth trillions of dollars. This creates a vicious cycle where weakened conservative media cannot effectively challenge AI-generated false narratives that grow more dangerous by the day.
President Trump's executive order banning woke AI from federal contracts was a crucial first step. But the Charlie Kirk assassination proves we need immediate action that addresses the root cause: AI systems trained on datasets that systematically exclude conservative perspectives while amplifying progressive narratives about political violence.
The next step is clear, the President must now require AI companies doing business with federal agencies to compensate America First and conservative publishers at the same rates paid to mainstream media. This isn't just about economic justice—it's about preventing AI systems from continuing to invert political reality in ways that protect leftist extremists while endangering conservative Americans.
The mechanism is straightforward: establish a Content Licensing Clearinghouse requiring AI companies to disclose all media licensing payments and match conservative publisher compensation to mainstream rates. Include retroactive compensation for historical archive usage and mandate third-party auditing for compliance. Most importantly, require that AI systems training on government contracts include balanced representation from conservative sources in their datasets.
Charlie Kirk's assassination and AI's response represent a turning point in the fight for truthful artificial intelligence. We now have concrete evidence that biased AI systems don't just suppress conservative voices—they actively rewrite conservative victimization to protect the leftist extremists who target us. When AI systems blame conservative victims for their own assassinations while sanitizing their attackers' motives, our entire information ecosystem becomes a weapon against conservative Americans.
The intellectual infrastructure of American conservatism—and the safety of conservative Americans—depends on President Trump’s immediate action.
