“Currently, #Internet companies collect #data about where we go #online and use this data to present us with #ads (#advertisements) or other #content we may be interested in. Dr. #YaqubChaudhary and Dr #JonniePenn, working out of #Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence #LCFI, have identified startling new ways #AI is seeking to control our #DecisionMaking at the earliest possible steps.”

Neat and tidy. Finally a use for AI as a power guzzling bullshit machine for advertising. Don’t get, “grabbed by your Norbots”

#AI / #IntentionEconomy / #Techweenies <https://thedebrief.org/tech-companies-are-seeking-to-develop-ai-that-excels-at-flattering-and-manipulating-us/>

"Conversational AI agents may develop the ability to covertly influence our intentions, creating a new commercial frontier that researchers call the “intention economy”.

The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing “intentions” in real-time to companies that can meet the need – even before we have made up our minds.

This is according to AI ethicists from the University of Cambridge, who say we are at the dawn of a “lucrative yet troubling new marketplace for digital signals of intent”, from buying movie tickets to voting for candidates. They call this the Intention Economy.

Researchers from Cambridge’s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) argue that the explosion in generative AI, and our increasing familiarity with chatbots, opens a new frontier of “persuasive technologies” – one hinted at in recent corporate announcements by tech giants.

“Anthropomorphic” AI agents, from chatbot assistants to digital tutors and girlfriends, will have access to vast quantities of intimate psychological and behavioural data, often gleaned via informal, conversational spoken dialogue."

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn

**Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn**

_“This AI will combine knowledge of our online habits with an uncanny ability to attune to us in ways we find comforting – mimicking personalities and anticipating desired responses – to build levels of trust and understanding that allow for social manipulation on an industrial scale, say researchers.”_

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn.

#Research #News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Chatbots #IntentionEconomy #Economy @ai