Protections needed to stop people believing chatbots are friends – expert
A media expert has warned that new protections are needed for artificial intelligence (AI) services because users can be tricked into believing chatbots are their friends.
Alexander Laffer, a lecturer in media and communications at the University of Winchester, said there needs to be responsible development of AI as systems have been created to respond to the capacity of humans for empathy.
He warned that chatbots should be designed to “augment” social interactions but not replace them following cases where people have become too “fond or reliant” on their AI companions, leaving them open to manipulation.
Protections needed? Blimey, how often do we have to repeat the ancient question posed by Juvenal –
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? also applies to experts.
Government is not our friend either, neither are ambitious politicians and neither are numerous experts. This feels like yet another move in the censorship game.
An interesting aspect of AI is that Those Who Know Best appear to be worried that AI promises to be far too powerful for plebs.
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Yer 'avin' a Laffer.
The name rang a bell, my few remaining brain cells clashing together inside my noggin.
The Latffer Curve is a mathematical, economistic, X-Y axis graphical curve which explains why Her-From-Accounts is not having much success raking in oodles of boodle by increasing taxes. As taxes increase to appropriate more and more of income, profit, inheritance, property, winnings, etc. the victim is increasingly likely to voluntarily stop earning or owning and if possible, off scoot to a more benign nation.
The logical end point is when tax rates are at 100% (of everything) then the Chancer of the Exchequer takes in zero, square root of sweet FA. Result, misery.
Or much printing of £1000 notes to be given to worthy supporters. To kick start the economy .
The baw's oan the slates. A Scoticism meaning the games over.
Doonhamer - yes Laffer does explain why Her-From-Accounts is not having much success raking in oodles of boodle by increasing taxes.
Liz Truss said in an interview that Treasury folk don't believe in the Laffer curve and don't put it in their models. I don't know how accurate that is, but the current mess does suggest she is right.
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