The Profound Danger of Conversational AI

Bing
conversational AI
ChatGPT
deep learning
NLP
What could a convincingly human-like chatbot do to the human psyche — and how should we design against it?
Author

synesis

Published

February 18, 2023

A prescient article written by Louis Rosenberg discussed an important topic three days before the debut of the conversational Bing: what could a convincingly human-like chatbot do to human psyche?

For the researchers/engineers/designers: how do we design a chatbot to avoid such harm and manipulation? Other than always striving for providing unbiased and truthful answers, shouldn’t we de-anthropomorphize it as much as possible for information-seeking use cases?

Originally posted on LinkedIn.

References

[1] Louis Rosenberg. “The profound danger of conversational AI.” VentureBeat, February 4, 2023. https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-profound-danger-of-conversational-ai/