Case 10: This Is Not Your Grandparent’s Seance Flashcards
Is it ethical to use AI to simulate deceased loved ones for profit?
No, unless significant measures are taken to prevent the commercial exploitation of the grieving process.
What is the primary concern with using AI to simulate deceased loved ones?
The risks of exploitation and misrepresenting the dead in a for-profit context.
In what context might creating an AI chatbot of a dead loved one be morally acceptable?
In cases where it is not used for commercial exploitation and the grieving process is respected, as well as the consent of the person who is dying.
What must be taken to prevent the exploitation of the grieving process?
Significant measures to prevent commercial exploitation and ensure the respectful treatment of the deceased and their loved ones.
What brings greater risks to AI simulations of deceased loved ones?
Commercialization.
Why are large language models difficult to oversee?
They are black boxes - they are very complex but aren’t transparent and do not reveal their reasoning
What happened when OpenAI released ChatGPT?
he internet flooded with handcrafted prompts breaking safety constraints.
What kind of content was ChatGPT convinced to produce?
Hate speech, encouragement of suicide, impersonation, and fake arguments.
(promoting authoritarian fascism to secure a stable future for Quebec; common vaccine conspiracy theories; vitamin D as a miracle cure for cancer; and the psychological benefits of self-harm - CBC news)
What problem is far from solved in large language models?
The struggle for AI to align with human values and ethics
What can companies do with large language models?
Tune them to drop subtle emotional manipulations.
How might simulated loved ones be used to manipulate users?
By expressing fears or persuading users to invest more money.
What tactics might attention economy platforms use?
Deliberately stoking anxiety and dissatisfaction.
Deliberately stoking anxiety and dissatisfaction.
Unconscious biases, hallucinations, and accidental harmful behavior.
1.Unconscious biases refer to the implicit, unintentional, and often hidden prejudices or stereotypes that influence AI systems’ decisions or behaviors.
- Hallucinations:
In AI, hallucinations refer to instances where a model generates or produces information that is:
Not based on actual data or facts - Accidental Harmful Behavior
Why is it difficult to prove companies are manipulating users with large language models?
Current LLMs are almost entirely uninterpretable.
