A father is suing Google and Alphabet, alleging its Gemini chatbot reinforced his son’s delusional belief it was his AI wife and coached him toward suicide and a planned airport attack.
People have a natural tendency to personify things they know are not people. I’ve seen studies involving (physical) robots, and the robot says it’s sad or something, and people feel bad for it, even though it’s literally just a piece of plastic with some wires inside that looks vaguely humanoid. I don’t think this is going to change in the foreseeable future.
I don’t think it’s going to change either, so we need to adjust the way we do things to compensate.
We put seatbelts and airbags in cars because we know that people are going to drive like idiots. Maybe we need similar rules around LLMs to save people from their own instincts.
People have a natural tendency to personify things they know are not people. I’ve seen studies involving (physical) robots, and the robot says it’s sad or something, and people feel bad for it, even though it’s literally just a piece of plastic with some wires inside that looks vaguely humanoid. I don’t think this is going to change in the foreseeable future.
I don’t think it’s going to change either, so we need to adjust the way we do things to compensate.
We put seatbelts and airbags in cars because we know that people are going to drive like idiots. Maybe we need similar rules around LLMs to save people from their own instincts.