# Brendan Cody-Kenny: Whether AI is reasonable is something you can test. Whether it is intelligent or creative is a debate that never ends.

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### 2026-09-30 update #ai #bias #reasoning
Whether AI is reasonable is something you can test. Whether it is intelligent or creative is a debate that never ends.
- Intelligence and creativity are undefined enough that the debate never resolves. Reasonableness is closer to measurable.
- An LLM is trained on the sum of written human output, from the worst of the internet to Ulysses, so it has some claim to a centrist, averaging pull.
- Research is mixed: LLMs predict centrist politicians' votes better than fringe ones, but abstract questionnaires can pull them left.
- The mainstream a model gravitates to is itself shaped by training data and alignment choices, so it isn't neutral either.

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