Path: ...!weretis.net!feeder8.news.weretis.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!not-for-mail From: ram@zedat.fu-berlin.de (Stefan Ram) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: Wrong ideas about chatbots Date: 8 Jun 2025 14:59:40 GMT Organization: Stefan Ram Lines: 29 Expires: 1 Jun 2026 11:59:58 GMT Message-ID: References: <10246l4$3smkv$1@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: news.uni-berlin.de e2fRyuys71S76Bvb40DJfADuLqhlHIIRKeZBrRdAyIEZEo Cancel-Lock: sha1:1/Y0umB93gCv/mhwt8XPEJth81Y= sha256:E9x6p0ZNDjfsbgnAYUrfNmbfAjVzEAp22z4BGtYSASE= X-Copyright: (C) Copyright 2025 Stefan Ram. All rights reserved. Distribution through any means other than regular usenet channels is forbidden. It is forbidden to publish this article in the Web, to change URIs of this article into links, and to transfer the body without this notice, but quotations of parts in other Usenet posts are allowed. X-No-Archive: Yes Archive: no X-No-Archive-Readme: "X-No-Archive" is set, because this prevents some services to mirror the article in the web. But the article may be kept on a Usenet archive server with only NNTP access. X-No-Html: yes Content-Language: en-US Bytes: 2789 Ben Collver 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.