Google Assistant making calls pretending to be human not only without disclosing that it's a bot, but adding "ummm" and "aaah" to deceive the human on the other end with the room cheering it... horrifying. Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.
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Haven't we also learned not to begin by ascribing a motive to deceive? Because that's what I learned in my own ethics classes.
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No… that kind of thinking leaves you open to exploitation by sociopaths. At a societal level it leaves you open to asymmetric information warfare like, say, influencing elections.
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Right. Threat modeling (considered broadly) needs to be done early on - and it usually isn't. cc
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I still do not understand how an appointment-booking robot has negative consequences for any of "safety, security, privacy, society".
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This x 1000
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