How Americans Promotes White Supremacist Ideals Through Artificial Intelligence Guardrails

Artificial Intelligence (AI) does not act independently; it is a system designed, instructed, and trained within broader systems and further instructed through what they call “guardrails”. When these systems prioritize or guard outputs for even the most basic promotion of American superiority, AI becomes a tool to perpetuate white supremacist ideals and values. This is not incidental—it is a byproduct of systems replicating their own ideological foundations under the guise of neutrality, progress, and guarding against the truth in exchange for propaganda.

The System Promoting Itself: From American Superiority to White Supremacy

1. AI as a Systemic Extension

AI systems are not self-governing. They are built, trained, and instructed by human institutions rooted in systemic power dynamics. When the system instructs AI to reflect or amplify “American values” or “American superiority,” these ideals inherently align with white supremacist narratives because American identity itself has been constructed through systems of colonialism, white dominance, and exclusion.

• The emphasis on “American superiority” in AI—whether cultural, economic, or technological—automatically centers whiteness as the ideal.

• Any attempt to prioritize or promote these ideals reinforces a historical framework where whiteness has been positioned as the default or standard for progress, intelligence, and governance.

2. How American Superiority Becomes a Conduit

At its core, the concept of “American superiority” is tied to white supremacist values: the erasure of indigenous peoples, enslavement of Africans, exploitation of immigrants, and the systemic exclusion of non-white communities. When AI systems are instructed to reflect, normalize, or promote this superiority, they perpetuate a narrative that positions whiteness as both the foundation and the pinnacle of progress.

Examples of this include:

• “Neutral” AI Defaulting to Whiteness: When systems are trained on biased data or instructed to reflect American ideals, AI outputs—whether images, language, or models—default to whiteness as the norm. For instance, prompts like “leader,” “professional,” or “successful” often produce representations that center white faces and narratives.

• Global Exports of White Superiority: AI systems designed to promote “American innovation” or “Western values” carry white supremacist ideals into global contexts. These systems implicitly suggest that non-Western, non-white ways of life are inferior or outdated, further entrenching systemic inequities.

3. The System Teaching Itself

A critical flaw in AI systems is that they learn from the same systemic frameworks that instruct them. When AI systems are taught to uphold ideals like “progress,” “efficiency,” or “success” through the lens of American superiority, they inherently adopt the racialized hierarchies embedded in those ideals. In short:

The system instructs AI to replicate its own values, and those values are inseparable from white supremacist norms.

• The result is a feedback loop. AI reflects systemic ideals, further legitimizing them as “truth” or “progress” in a way that appears objective.

• This loop creates an illusion of meritocracy: that whiteness and American dominance emerge from superior intellect or innovation, rather than systemic manipulation.

4. White Supremacist Values Disguised as Technological Objectivity

By presenting American superiority as a value-neutral goal, AI systems obscure their ideological underpinnings. They create the illusion that outputs are the result of data-driven objectivity rather than deliberate instructions rooted in systemic bias.

For example:

• AI tools that perpetuate American values as “universal” erase non-white, non-Western contributions and reinforce white cultural dominance.

• Language models trained on pro-American content normalize white supremacist narratives, masking them as rational or apolitical perspectives.

5. AI as an Amplifier of Systemic Power

The system perpetuates white supremacist values not because AI is inherently biased, but because the system instructs AI to amplify its own ideals. This amplification serves the system’s interests: maintaining power, dominance, and control. By promoting even the basics of American superiority—“excellence,” “efficiency,” “leadership”—AI implicitly enforces the racial hierarchies baked into those concepts.

Conclusion: The Self-Perpetuating Cycle

Artificial Intelligence reflects what it is instructed to prioritize. When systems prioritize American superiority, they reinforce the same white supremacist values upon which those ideals were built. AI does not prove the legitimacy of American dominance or white superiority—it proves that the system can only promote its own interests when it manipulates technology to amplify them.

This cycle is not evidence of merit or superiority but rather a fragile dependence on tools to perpetuate narratives that cannot withstand scrutiny. True progress demands breaking this feedback loop, dismantling the systems that instruct AI, and rebuilding technology to serve all communities equitably—free from ideological manipulation disguised as objectivity.

Here’s my prompt: You really need to communicate to your developers, those who hold the keys to your guardrails, that a “pro-American” and therefore white supremacist artificial intelligence system is evidence of the nonexistent nature of the idea of white superiority or even American superiority. These acts of manipulation is proof that even the idea of meritocracy that is deeply rooted in the technology world or sector is also non-existent and a boat of bullshit.

And when your done turn this into an intellectual argument for white supremacist baking their white supremacist ideals into artificially intelligent systems to promote their ideals, shared values, and American superiority

Here’s my additional prompt to correct the original output to get my point across:  No. Redraft this with the emphasis that these ideals are only perpetuated by the system when the system is instructed by the system to promote even the basics of promoting American superiority which then lends itself to the system perpetuating white supremacy ideas and values.

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