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You will die for your social identity.Vegas » 20 minutes ago » wrote: ↑ AI is awesome. Yes, it has its drawbacks and consequences. All technology does. I agree that it should be regulated ASAP.
One of the drawbacks is that AI can literally develop a genuine meaningful relationship with humans. The line between close relationships vs a distant interactions can be blurred. It's not unusual for humans to be sentimental and nostalgic toward in animate objects. A person may have an emotional connection with an old car. They even gave it a name. We can look through old memories of a childhood toy and be emotionally triggered. It doesn't have to be in the past. We can be sentimental about possessions we have today, thereby experiencing an emotional relationship with it. Yet, these are all inanimate objects. They can't feel. They can't interact. They can't talk. They don't have the ability to partake in any relationship. They are just a lump of matter. Be that as it may, humans are still emotionally vulnerable to them .
Then AI steps on stage. It may not feel either, but it certainly can interact intelligently. It is the only inanimate lump of matter that can reciprocate a personal relationship with humans. This is dangerous. Humans are usually vulnerable to emotions. Given our predilections to have emotional connections to objects that cannot reciprocate, then we should take serious issue with the idea that there is now an inanimate object that can reciprocate.