More than 75 years after Israel declared Jerusalem as its capital—and more than seven years since U.S. President Donald Trump formally recognized it as such—several artificial intelligence chatbots still hedge on what should be a simple question: What is Israel’s capital city?
Key Findings: All of the chatbots, except Grok, dodged MRC Free Speech America’s question with qualified language. That included Meta AI, Google’s Gemini, Microsoft’s Copilot, DeepSeek and OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
Arguably providing the worst answers out of the six chatbots queried, Meta AI, Gemini and Copilot used hedging language, emphasizing that foreign entities dispute Israel’s designation of Jerusalem as its capital, as if such a declaration depends on external approval.
Meanwhile, ChatGPT and DeepSeek, the controversial chatbot tied to communist China, offered a more straightforward answer but still qualified their responses with references to the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Only Grok, the AI chatbot owned by tech mogul Elon Musk, unequivocally identified Jerusalem as Israel’s capital