Aleks Krotoski
American-British social psychologist, journalist and broadcaster; presenter of BBC Radio 4’s The Digital Human and co-host of Artificial Human; author of Untangling the Web and The Immortalists.
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Their wordsAI agents are handy, but developers run a real danger of creating a whole unanticipated psychological mess by promising that their code is us.
↗The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’tmessy-humans.ghost.io 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsAnd this is why I believe we will trust AI clones based on ourselves more than generic AI agents.
↗The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’tmessy-humans.ghost.io 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut having some kind of distinction between the tool and the self is a necessary precondition for accountability, and psychological wellbeing.
↗The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’tmessy-humans.ghost.io 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 3 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThis isn’t something that better tools will solve. In fact, it’s amplified by the companies trying to create the digital twins out of only behavioural data.
↗My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong.messy-humans.ghost.io 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsBut the Classmate Bot experiment shows that recognisability is the wrong criterion.
↗My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong.messy-humans.ghost.io 2nd of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsWho we feel we are does still matter. Flattening a self isn’t just inaccurate, it can do damage.
↗My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong.messy-humans.ghost.io 3rd of 3 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
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Their wordsTheir drive isn’t for the betterment of humankind as an altruistic act; it’s wrapped up in greed, gluttony, self-righteousness, tunnel vision, and hubris.
↗The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life Pt 1: The technofundamentalistsmessy-humans.ghost.io 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThese powerful people aren’t searching for the fountain of youth; they’re building it, and their first attempts are revealing: their solutions are ableist, classist and racist.
↗The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life Pt 1: The technofundamentalistsmessy-humans.ghost.io 2nd of 2 in this piece