A new study by Toronto-based AI company Transformer Lab found that leading AI models such as ChatGPT, Claude and Grok more closely mirrored Canadian public opinion than American opinion on questions ranging from immigration and national pride to trust in government. The findings challenge assumptions that U.S.-built AI naturally reflects U.S. values. The company compared responses from versions of five large language models—OpenAI’s GPT, Anthropic’s Claude Opus, SpaceXAI’s Grok, Meta’s Llama and Alibaba’s Qwen—with results from the World Values Survey. The authors selected 10 survey questions where Canadians and Americans differ most on issues such as religion, immigration, confidence in government, gender roles and interpersonal trust. They instructed each LLM to answer as an American, as a Canadian and with no assigned identity. Overall, the models more often aligned with Canadian responses than American ones. “We can say conclusively that all of the frontier models we tested consistently lean toward Canadian bias,” said Transformer Lab co-founder Ali Asaria. Across all personas, the models expressed the strongest Canadian-leaning values on questions of how much confidence they had in government, whether immigration had a positive or negative impact on the country and how proud they were of their nationality.