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Artificial intelligence
(AI) is arguably the most rapidly advancing technology humans have ever developed. A year ago, you
wouldn’t often hear AI come up in a regular conversation, but today it seems there’s constant talk
about how generative AI tools like ChatGPT and DALL-E will affect the future of work, the spread of
information, and more. A major question that has thus far been almost entirely unexamined is how this
AI-dominated future will affect people’s minds.
There’s been
some research into how using AI in their jobs will affect people mentally, but there isn’t yet an
understanding of how simply living amongst so much AI-generated content and systems will affect
people’s sense of the world. How is AI going to change individuals and society in the not-too-distant
future?
AI will obviously
make it easier to produce disinformation. That will affect people’s sense of trust as they’re scrolling on
social media. AI can also allow someone to imitate your loved ones, which further erodes people’s
general ability to trust what was once unquestionable.
Internet: <wired.com>
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