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Today, lying is a human problem. Over time, AI will generate an increasing share of text/speech. AI enables personalised, scalable deception. It needs no intention to deceive -- “lies” emerge from optimising text for rewards (e.g. sales, clicks, or Likes).
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We introduce “negligent falsehoods” as a generalisation of lies. Truthful AI avoids negligent falsehoods. Creating AI that’s both truthful and trusted could improve human epistemics and trust among humans (as well as reducing risk from lying AI).
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