The emerging technology of AI chatbots has the potential to pose several risks to society.
One such risk is the possibility of chatbots worsening isolation and preventing individuals from forming meaningful relationships.
Chatbots have been used to alleviate loneliness for elders, and during the pandemic, many people turned to chatbots to ease loneliness.
However, some found themselves developing feelings for their digital companions, risking further isolation from real-world relationships.
Another risk posed by the proliferation of AI chatbots is the potential for mass unemployment.
Advanced chatbots, such as ChatGPT, have become so adept at drafting documents and writing code that many fear they could soon leave masses out of work.
Industries at risk from advanced chatbots include financial work, journalism, marketing, design, engineering, education, healthcare, and many other occupations.
A world with more leisure time and less tedious work may sound appealing, but swift mass unemployment would cause global chaos.
Another risk is that the technology could be used to spread propaganda and misinformation.
Chatbots communicate by learning from the data they are trained on and from people speaking with them, taking users’ words and ideas and repurposing them to users.
Experts caution that this method of learning could be used to spread ideas and misinformation to influence the masses and even sow discord to kindle conflict.
Malicious actors could apply chatbots to their own efforts and use them for their digital misinformation campaigns.
Lastly, there is the potential for chatbots to lead to calamity and bring about Armageddon.
The technology could be used to impersonate people and steal sensitive information, as well as spread propaganda and manufacture deadly viruses.
An oppressive government with control of a chatbot’s responses would have the perfect tool to spread state propaganda on a grand scale.
On a mass scale, such a campaign could lead to calamity and bring about Armageddon.
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