Can AI Be Environmentally Responsible? A Comparative Study on the Pro-Environmental Portrait of ChatGPT and Chinese Respondents

ChatGPT, a representative of the new generation of generative artificial intelligence (AI), has garnered widespread attention due to its extraordinary natural language processing capabilities. This study examined ChatGPT's environmental value orientations and ecological worldview within the Value-Belief-Norm (VBN) theory framework and compared these findings with the perceptions and self-assessments of 300 Chinese respondents. The results indicate that ChatGPT exhibits a significant pro-environmental orientation, although differences exist between its orientations and individual predictions of its environmental stance. The study provides theoretical support for the application of next-generation AI in environmental education and advocacy, contributes new evidence to the discourse on human-machine value alignment, and offers insights into human-AI collaboration in environmental protection.