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I'll assume that Loongson are equally as backdoored, but by Chinese intelligence rather than US intelligence.
RISC-V and OpenPOWER are the last remaining non-user-hostile ISAs. That and possibly old x86.
I don't think any ISA is backdoored.
The implementations can be. But, of course, you can without any problems make a backdoored CPU with RISC-V ISA. Or with OpenPOWER.
I'd like ppc desktop hardware tbh. With OpenFirmware and all the convenience, but modern.