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How Can We Trust Artificial Agents If Big Tech Wants to Fool Us into Believing They're Human?

By Bbenzon @bbenzon

And while we're here, more evidence of how Silicon Valley has entirely missed the point of speculative fiction. pic.twitter.com/JJ66zOPAAp

— Emily M. Bender (@emilymbender) June 23, 2022

A much better way to draw on science fiction in technology development is @cfiesler 's Black Mirror Writer's Room exercise: https://t.co/e89XH1sshA

— Emily M. Bender (@emilymbender) June 23, 2022

The obvious way to build trust in artificial agents is to treat them as such, as explicitly as possible. We don't build trust in our pets by treating them as weird kinds of people. Treat things as what they are.


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