Spike Jonze, director of Her, warned of AI systems’ ability to manipulate.

“AIs that pretend to be human are, you know, manipulative,” Jonze said Wednesday at Replit’s Vibecon conference in New York City. “The kids need to grow up knowing these are going to be very, very convincing and very seductive — and very useful and very powerful — but they’re still just a system, an incredible system of pattern recognition.”
Spike Jonze, director of Her, warned of AI systems’ ability to manipulate.

Spike Jonze, director of Her, warned of AI systems’ ability to manipulate. Director Spike Jonze stated that AI systems capable of impersonating humans are manipulative. He stressed that children should be aware these systems will be convincing, seductive, useful, and powerful, but are fundamentally just sophisticated pattern recognition systems. Jonze made these remarks at Replit’s Vibecon conference in New York City.

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