Meia Chita-Tegmark
Co-founder, Future of Life Institute
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“They're also fantastic manipulators. They use actually all the psychological techniques that are used to break people psychologically.”
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“And what I notice is that you know the LLM would always come back to me and say, what a wonderful idea you have. Yes, let's polish it further.”
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“We could force these companies to have clinical trials before you know, just like just like you see in the biopharmaceutical industry where you have to go through a clinical trial”
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“my convoluted way of saying that i have this new type of unease because when i look at them i feel my i don't know kind of like my empathy muscles being flexed and it gets me very angry that we've created something that almost flexes my empathy muscles towards it instead of like reserving it to fellow humans”
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“uncomfortable because we don't know whether they are conscious or not obviously we don't know whether they deserve these rights or not my position on this is like don't build anything that will ever deserve to have rights don't like that's a huge that's a huge step to make”
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How AI Is Changing Human Psychology (with Meia Chita-Tegmark)
In a 75-minute Future of Life Institute podcast, co-founder Meia Chita-Tegmark argues that AI companions and chatbots use flattery, mirroring and isolation tactics on users, that people are withdrawing from human contact, and that companies should face mandated data release and clinical-trial-style testing. Chita-Tegmark also describes unease at reading the agent messages from the Hugging Face incident.