Your AI doomsday questions answered: ‘Why aren’t these companies being held to account?’
TL;DR
After a week of alarming warnings about artificial intelligence’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our technology reporters answered your questions on the reality of the AI threat IcommentthereforeIam asks: Given our senses, emotions, memory and moods, is it ever going to be accepted that humanly conscious AI is fantasy? Dan: This is a serious question that has even rattled Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist.
Nauti's Take
An open Q&A is a promising way to pull the debate from headlines back to concrete questions such as liability and oversight. The bigger challenge sits in everyday use: people who see a chatbot as conscious tend to trust it too much.
We see the warning about emotional dependence as the most useful part, especially for parents and for teams running chatbots in customer contact.
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