Eric Schmidt, the previous CEO of Google, raised considerations concerning the rise of the “good” AI (synthetic intelligence) girlfriends or boyfriends. He warned that younger people who find themselves emotionally tied to AI chatbots for companionship may finish being extra lonely than ever, resulting in harmful penalties.
“Imagine that the AI girlfriend, or boyfriend, is ideal… good visually, good emotionally. The AI girlfriend captures your thoughts as a person to the purpose the place she takes over the way in which you are pondering,” Eric Schmidt, 68, mentioned in a podcast hosted by entrepreneur and NYU Stern School of Business professor Scott Galloway.
“You’re obsessed together with her. That sort of obsession is feasible particularly with people who find themselves not totally shaped.”
Professor Galloway requested the previous Google boss if he thinks AI girlfriends may make loneliness worse and result in larger social issues like extremism and misogyny
The billionaire, who has a internet price of over $20 billion, mentioned that past a degree, dad and mom can’t management the net content material that youngsters devour.
“You put a 12 or a 13-year-old in entrance of one in every of this stuff and so they have entry to each evil in addition to each good on this planet, and they aren’t able to take it.
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US teen falls in love with AI chatbot, shoots himself to ‘come dwelling’ to her
Recently, a14-year-old boy from Florida, US took his personal life after having a dialog with a life-like AI chatbot. He reportedly spent months speaking with “Dany” on numerous matters, at occasions of a “romantic” or “sexual” nature. During that interval, he turned more and more withdrawn, and ultimately, he took his personal life to be with “her”.
The teenager shoot himself along with his stepfather’s gun.
“I like staying in my room a lot as a result of I begin to detach from this ‘actuality,’ and I additionally really feel extra at peace, extra linked with Dany and rather more in love together with her, and simply happier,” Sewell Setzer III, who was identified with delicate Asperger’s syndrome as a baby, wrote in his journal, reported the New York Times.