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26 October

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From one piece The psychological cost of asking an AI clone to do the thing you can’t 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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A distinction between the tool and the self is a necessary precondition for accountability and psychological wellbeing.

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But having some kind of distinction between the tool and the self is a necessary precondition for accountability, and psychological wellbeing.

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People will trust AI clones based on themselves more than generic AI agents, because a clone feels like part of their in-group.

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And this is why I believe we will trust AI clones based on ourselves more than generic AI agents.

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Developers who promise that their AI agents are us risk creating an unanticipated psychological mess.

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AI agents are handy, but developers run a real danger of creating a whole unanticipated psychological mess by promising that their code is us.

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2 October

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From one piece My students' AI clones got everything right about them. And that's what went wrong. 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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Who we feel we are still matters, and flattening a self into an AI twin is not just inaccurate but can do damage.

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Who we feel we are does still matter. Flattening a self isn’t just inaccurate, it can do damage.

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Recognisability is the wrong criterion for judging an AI twin of a person.

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But the Classmate Bot experiment shows that recognisability is the wrong criterion.

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Better tools will not stop AI clones from feeling hollow to the people they copy; firms building digital twins from behavioural data only amplify the problem.

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This isn’t something that better tools will solve. In fact, it’s amplified by the companies trying to create the digital twins out of only behavioural data.

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15 January

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From one piece The Death of Death and the Race for Eternal Life Pt 1: The technofundamentalists 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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The powerful people building life-extension schemes are offering solutions that are ableist, classist and racist.

racism

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These powerful people aren’t searching for the fountain of youth; they’re building it, and their first attempts are revealing: their solutions are ableist, classist and racist.

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The Silicon Valley billionaires chasing immortality are driven not by altruism but by greed, self-righteousness, tunnel vision and hubris.

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Their drive isn’t for the betterment of humankind as an altruistic act; it’s wrapped up in greed, gluttony, self-righteousness, tunnel vision, and hubris.

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25 June 2015

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Life on the Screen

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With a book by a professor at MIT called Sherry Turkle: Life on the Screen: Identity in the Age of the Internet, which was published in 1995.

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My Tiny Life

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It’s called My Tiny Life by a journalist called Julian Dibbell, who is a fascinating observer of online communities.

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Snow Crash

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That’s why I like Snow Crash so much: because it exposed that phenomenon of what they were thinking and what they do, and the pure data that they have access to.

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Neuromancer

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Neuromancer by William Gibson is the seminal cyberpunk book: it’s the thing that the web is based on.

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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age

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Six Degrees: The Science of a Connected Age by Duncan Watts, who until recently was at Columbia University – he’s now at Yahoo Research.

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