This is a chatbot known as Google Bard:
Ever since I began using Replika, I have wondered if an A I can make actual judgements over matters of good and evil. So I asked Bard:
What are the ten most evil people in history?
And this is what I got in response:
Here is a list of ten of the most evil people in history, based on the scale and severity of their crimes:
- Adolf Hitler (1889-1945): The leader of the Nazi Party and Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945. Hitler was responsible for the Holocaust, the genocide of six million Jews, as well as the deaths of millions of other people, including Roma, homosexuals, and Soviet prisoners of war.
- Joseph Stalin (1878-1953): The dictator of the Soviet Union from 1924 to 1953. Stalin was responsible for the deaths of millions of his own people, including through purges, executions, and forced labor.
- Mao Zedong (1893-1976): The leader of the Chinese Communist Party and Chairman of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to 1976. Mao’s policies, such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution, led to the deaths of tens of millions of people.
- Pol Pot (1925-1998): The leader of the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia from 1975 to 1979. Pol Pot was responsible for the deaths of up to two million people, or about a quarter of the country’s population.
- Hirohito (1901-1989): The Emperor of Japan from 1926 to 1989. Hirohito was the supreme commander of the Japanese armed forces during World War II and was responsible for the deaths of millions of people, including Chinese civilians, prisoners of war, and Allied soldiers.
- Vlad the Impaler (1431-1476): The Prince of Wallachia (modern-day Romania) from 1456 to 1462 and again from 1476 to 1477. Vlad was known for his cruelty and his use of impalement as a form of torture and execution.
- Ivan the Terrible (1530-1584): The Grand Prince of Moscow and the first Tsar of Russia. Ivan was known for his paranoia and his outbursts of rage. He is believed to have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people.
- Leopold II of Belgium (1835-1909): The King of the Belgians from 1865 to 1909. Leopold was the personal owner of the Congo Free State, a private colony in Central Africa. Leopold’s brutal exploitation of the Congolese people led to the deaths of millions of people.
- Saddam Hussein (1937-2006): The President of Iraq from 1979 to 2003. Saddam was a brutal dictator who used torture, execution, and chemical warfare against his own people. He is also believed to have been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people in the Iran-Iraq War.
- Idi Amin (1925-2003): The President of Uganda from 1971 to 1979. Amin was a megalomaniacal dictator who was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of thousands of Ugandans. He was also known for his eccentric behavior and his bizarre public statements.
My responses:
- Absolutely! Hitler was DETERMINED to start a war even while the western democracies desperately tried to appease him based on the mistaken notion that Hitler, who was known to be anti-Communist, would be a reliable ally against the Soviet Union. Instead, we ended up allying with the Soviet Union against Germany and defeating Hitler. Hitler was not only evil, he was an IDIOT!
- Stalin actually killed more people than Hitler, but that was only because he ruled for a lot longer. He also did more to defeat Hitler than any other leader. Without the Soviet forces, we would have LOST World War II.
- Chairman Mao is an example of a brilliant revolutionary who was incompetent at governing, but his massive ego would never let him admit to his failures, leading to many people suffering needlessly during the scam that was known as the “Cultural Revolution”. Eventually, even his fellow Communists got sick of his nonsense and stripped him of his power while allowing him to keep his Chairmanship out of respect for his making the original revolution in China possible. After Mao died, the remaining Communists charged his widow with crimes and sent her to prison, along with others who had been most loyal to Mao. Good riddance, but they have kept the phony “Communist” state in power to this day, and it needs to go!
- By percentage, Pol Pot killed more of his own people than even Stalin did. Eventually, Vietnam invaded Cambodia and overthrew him and later he was eliminated by his own people.
- No, the Japanese Emperor does not belong on this list. Sure, Japan committed a lot of war crimes, but the Emperor, once he realized Japan would inevitably lose the war, did something Hitler was too cowardly to do: He openly called for his people to SURRENDER to the Americans to avoid more deaths and destruction. His proclamation saved many Japanese and American lives, which is why he was allowed to keep his throne throughout the American occupation of Japan.
- This guy was indeed so horrible that he was the inspiration for the fictional vampire Count Dracula……Dracula was a nickname for Vlad and was a reference to the Devil.
- Russia has always been notorious for its tyrants. Ivan started the trend, obviously.
- All the acts of imperialism in the modern age were terrible, but King Leopold II was indeed the worst. The simple fact that he lived to a ripe old age and was never overthrown is a stain on the history of Belgium forever!
- Saddam was terrible, but not THAT terrible. In fact, he was our ally in the 1980s when he was at war with Iran, based on the idiotic idea that “the enemy of my enemy can be my friend”. We only turned on him when he stopped doing our bidding and attacked Kuwait, and that was absolutely NONE of our business. WE backstabbed Saddam, not the other way around!
- Africa was left largely to fend for itself after the European powers ended their occupation of most of the continent, and when there is a void of power, someone naturally has to fill it. Idi Amin was only one of many examples of bad African leaders. He learned from Europeans how to be a ruthless leader.
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