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The Chinese Room thought experiment is extremely relevant to what's going on in the world today, https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/chinese-room/
I first read about it in Blindsight, a fantastic sci-fi novel by Peter Watts. (Unrelated, I also highly recommend Starfish by him as well).
So now imagine someone asks, "Do you like dogs?" and out pops the answer, "No, I hate them." The worker inside the thought experiment room has no idea the question that was asked nor the answer that was given and it could very well run counter to their own opinions. The answer may come from bias in the initial data, or just the person who wrote the book of rules and decided to put their thumb on the scales. PLEASE stop trusting AI for literally anything, it is less than worthless, it is actively harmful.
Before I read the link, I wanna guess that its saying the common people laboring for whatever horrible business are oppressed or forced by economic circumstance to labor towards evil while the owners get the good life and the presumed gentile-ness that belies the source of their influence and resources