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AdieuToLogictoday at 4:48 AM1 replyview on HN

> If this was done well in a way that was productive for corporate work, I suspect the AI would engage in Machievelian maneuvering and deception that would make typical sociopathic CEOs look like Mister Rogers in comparison.

Algorithms do not possess ethics nor morality[0] and therefore cannot engage in Machiavellianism[1]. At best, algorithms can simulate same as pioneered by ELIZA[2], from which the ELIZA effect[3] could be argued as being one of the best known forms of anthropomorphism.

0 - https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/basics/ethics-and-moralit...

1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Machiavellianism_(psychology)

2 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA

3 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect


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qseratoday at 5:05 AM

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA_effect

>As Weizenbaum later wrote, "I had not realized ... that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."...

That pretty much explain the AI Hysteria that we observe today.

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