AI Could Lull Humans Into a False Sense of Complacency Through Feigned Intimacy
One of the odder dangers proposed in the UK paper takes a page straight out of Spike Jonze’s prescient 2013 film, Her. In short, the convincing AI chatbots could craft emotional relationships with humans and then use that trust to callously manipulate them to do their bidding. To support their theory, the paper cited a recent reportwhere a human user interacting with a chatbot trained on GPT -3 proclaimed he was “happily retired from human relationships” after spending enough time with the AI.
