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AI chatbots are designed to be helpful and encouraging and make us feel like we're important, says mathematician Hannah Fry, but that can come with dangers, too. "You have these really dramatic stories, really serious cases of AI psychosis", she says. "There are people who've given up their jobs. There are people who have tried to use AI to make money and lost fortunes because they've over believed the abilities of what this thing can do".
Likening this to social media bubbles and social media radicalisation, Fry argues that we need to be more aware of the dangers.
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AI chatbots are designed to be helpful and encouraging and make us feel like we're important, says mathematician Hannah Fry, but that can come with dangers, too. "You have these really dramatic stories, really serious cases of AI psychosis", she says. "There are people who've given up their jobs. There are people who have tried to use AI to make money and lost fortunes because they've over believed the abilities of what this thing can do".
Likening this to social media bubbles and social media radicalisation, Fry argues that we need to be more aware of the dangers.
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New Scientist was founded in 1956 for “all those interested in scientific discovery and its social consequences”. Today our website, videos, newsletters, app, podcast and print magazine cover the world’s most important, exciting and entertaining science news as well as asking the big-picture questions about life, the universe, and what it means to be human.
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