Commentary: Artificial intelligence has the power to negatively affect many of our human interactions.
Our society has experienced plenty of disruptive technology over the past couple of centuries, but nothing has been as disruptive as artificial intelligence promises to be.
People are also reading… Several of these concerns were highlighted recently when advance testers with access to Microsoft’s Bing AI chatbot reported alarming conversations. Since those results have been so widely reported, I won’t describe them here. Let’s just say they were creepy. Microsoft’s response was to pull the chatbot from public use and to send it back for further development.
Imagine all the things that implies, all the ways in which human beings put words and images together to communicate with one another. And then imagine that much of that is done by some kind of entity that has no self-awareness, no personhood, but is capable of precisely imitating the full range of expressive activities that, up to this point in world’s existence, have been the exclusive province of human beings.
We had a glimpse of such a use recently when an administrator at Vanderbilt University used ChatGPT to compose an email to students in response to the mass shooting at Michigan State. The email called for promoting a “culture of respect and understanding” and urged members of the community to “continue to engage in conversations.” It closed with a plea to “come together as a community to reaffirm our commitment to caring for one another.
The assurance of sincerity, which is essential to so much we take for granted in our society, is acquired incrementally, through a willingness to engage earnestly with others in a thousand little gestures of mutual respect and attention.
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