The Creepiness of AI

• ZZartin

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  March 6, 2019 at 7:09 am

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  David.Poole - Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:13 AM

  There are legal ramifications too.  If an AI Bot talks someone into an inappropriate purchase that breaches laws and regulations who is liable?  Can the company making the sale claim that no-one is culpable?

  Read "Sea of Rust" by Robert Cargyle.

  I think it would fall into the same category as a sales rep who makes an illegitimate sale, ultimately the company is liable.

• Eric M Russell

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  March 6, 2019 at 7:16 am

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  ZZartin - Wednesday, March 6, 2019 7:09 AM

  David.Poole - Tuesday, March 5, 2019 1:13 AM

  There are legal ramifications too.  If an AI Bot talks someone into an inappropriate purchase that breaches laws and regulations who is liable?  Can the company making the sale claim that no-one is culpable?

  Read "Sea of Rust" by Robert Cargyle.

  I think it would fall into the same category as a sales rep who makes an illegitimate sale, ultimately the company is liable.

  Unless intent or willful disregard could be proven (ie: the scandal surrounding the Volkswagen emission control device programming), the company may not be not criminally culpable, but they would still be civilly and financially liable (ie: the home mortgage robo-signing scandal).

  "Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Instead, seek what they sought." - Matsuo Basho

• TomThomson

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  April 3, 2019 at 6:26 pm

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  Stephen Scott wrote:

  ....  It means we're is a gold rush to gather every bit of data about people - not just their online presence.  All of this data is what will drive AI to be able to make the fake videos, make the fake phone calls, all to spoof humans.  It means we should be regulating this stuff now, which Microsoft (and others) are already doing.

  https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2018/07/13/facial-recognition-technology-the-need-for-public-regulation-and-corporate-responsibility/

  ....

  I dont think there's much chance of successfully regulating the Googles and Microsofts and other collectors of ridiculous amounts of informatio.  They don't try to conform, they do their best to oppose any attemps to make them treat our data respectfully and reasonably, and push well beyond what the regulations permit while producing spurious arguments that the regulations do permit what they are doing, and of course they do their best to ignore the regulators.

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