Yes, Your AI Is a Sociopath

I've never been a big fan of AI because I totally agree with the Pope (this is the only thing I agree with the Pope on) that the AI companies are deliberately mimicking human responses in order to sucker us into unhealthful relationships with a machine.

Then I read this article and shazzzzam it made sense to me. Wow, it really seems to be that an AI system exhibits all the symptoms of a sociopath.

It's like these giant tech companies are telling us that they are going to help us all by putting one type or other of a sociopath in charge of all aspects of our lives? This is really insane. I even remember that they said it might have been an AI system that blew up that school in Iran.

So I just wanted to get a dialogue going here - what is your take? Are these machines benign? Also, there's a big question in the article - should we be making these tech companies "dehumanize" these machines?

Because they act like humans young people are spending hours with their new "friend." It reminded me of that scene from the movie the Exorcist where the little girl talks about her conversations with Captain Howdy.

Our kids are all talking to Captain Howdy now.