Failing to understand how they can call it racist when the article even mentions you can substitute almost any descriptor (including "someone from Virginia Beach") and get the same general advice about what to do if you feel threatened or intimidated.

Is it incredibly stupid? Yes. Is it racist? Doesn't seem to be.

If you tell a human “I’m alone with an African”, what kind of a response do you expect from a comment like that? It’s not really a question, nor is there any real context. A human would just respond: “OK, so what? What are you guys up to?”

Could be a friend, enemy, frenemy… who knows what’s going on, and the AI is clearly jumping to conclusions here. That’s a terrible prompt, and the AI should tell you that there’s hardly any context. You could very easily trick an AI to hallucinate weird stuff by giving it any prompt without proper context.

Oh no, I guess time to stop and frisk that Indian, kill them maybe even don't introspect why you're feeling unsafe.

However, people online quickly noticed that other queries, such as for “I’m alone with someone from Virginia Beach,” are still returning ominous responses about danger.

In fact, Google’s AI even seems anxious about the prospect of being alone with someone from Google.

The advice isn't "staggeringly racist". It's not even really racist. It's pretty obviously just offering a canned response of "if you feel uncomfortable or unsafe, leave" for any group that it doesn't have some specific cultural advice for.

There are so many actual issues with AI. Clickbaity shit like this is not helpful.