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From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram)
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Subject: Re: Wrong ideas about chatbots
Date: 8 Jun 2025 14:59:40 GMT
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Ben Collver <bencollver@tilde.pink> wrote or quoted:
>You are fixating on the technical and ignoring the social.  From the
>original article:
>[AI] turns social relations into number-crunching operations...
>Meredith Whittaker, president of the Signal Foundation, has
>described AI as being fundamentally "surveillance technology".
>AI systems have found their best product-market fit in police and
>military applications, where short-circuiting people's critical
>thinking and decision-making processes is incredibly useful...

  It's true that for some folks, AI kind of takes the place of
  real social interaction, and it can be used for things like
  surveillance, law enforcement, or the military.

  It's a good thing when people spot potential risks and speak
  up about them.

  But people really shouldn't be acting as if every social
  interaction we have is now run by AI, or like those police
  and military uses are all AI is good for.

  You could say the same thing about all kinds of tech and scientific
  progress. Take psychology, for example. There are techniques that
  let you figure out someone's political leanings just from subtle word
  choices. Any kind of scientific or technical breakthrough can get
  twisted by bad actors, like dictators, to spy on their own people,
  mess with them, or even go after other countries.