Greg EganMar 13

“AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs”

“We told people before, and after, to be careful, that the AI is going to be (or was) biased, and nothing helped,” Naaman said. “Their attitudes about the issues still shifted.”

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ai-autocomplete-doesnt-just-change-how-you-write-it-changes-how-you-think/

AI autocomplete doesn’t just change how you write. It changes how you think

AI-powered writing tools are increasingly integrated into our e-mails and phones. Now a new study finds biased AI suggestions can sway users’ beliefs

Scientific American
Show threadYoraMar 13
@gregeganSF These are the Thinking Machines from Dune from 60 years ago.
Not killer robots that hunt down humans to enslave and murder them. But billionaires conditioning lazy and gullible people to make them obedient to their will.
Show threadAmin GirasolMar 14
@yora @gregeganSF try to take a slightly more generous view. People aren't lazy and gullible; they're completely stressed, overworked, bamboozled and alienated. This is fertile ground for technofascism.
Show threadYora
@fluidlogic @gregeganSF None of that are reasons to use AI.
Mar 14 at 3:48pmWeb
Show threadAmin GirasolMar 14
@yora @gregeganSF exactly right.