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[David]

On 27/1/23 09:20, Tom Worthington wrote:

> AI will be able to mimic idiom, empathy, and keep it up day in and day out, when a human would get tired and cranky. It doesn't take much to mimic empathy. 
Isn't that a problem?  I think most people are pretty quick to detect when they're talking to a machine and it's rarely a positive experience, either for the individual or the organisation.

We also have to consider how much responsibility and authority an AI system carries.  Does the machine which allows a student an  extension of time for their end-of-semester submission (:-) or grants a customer more time to settle a debt have to explain their judgements to some human who ultimately carries the can?  Or will they not be given power to make those judgements?

It seems to me there's rather a divergence in our social licensing here.  As a society we're happy to allow self-driving cars on the roads even though they can kill people, and have done so.  But I wouldn't like to try telling a bank manager they're personally responsible for the autonomous decisions of some AI system.

David Lochrin