Tech execs letting A.I. sneakily pass as humans should face jail: Harari

Few would argue that counterfeit money poses no threat to the financial system. If you don’t trust the currency to be real, buying and selling becomes much more difficult, with consequent implications for the economy. But according to one popular author, not enough attention is being paid to another danger: AI bots on social media pretending to be real people.

Now it is possible, for the first time in history, to create fake people – to create Billions Israeli historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari said this week. “You’re interacting with someone online, and you don’t know if they’re a real human or a bot.”

author Sabines– History of Humanity that Bill Gates calls One of his favorite books – give feedback while to treat The United Nations Summit on Artificial Intelligence for the Common Good in Geneva.

He continued, “If this is allowed to happen, it will do to society what fake money threatens to the financial system. If you can’t tell who is the real human and who is the fake human, trust will collapse, and with it at least free society. Perhaps dictatorships will be able to manage in such a way What, but not democracies.

‘Swarms of robots take over’

Twitter owner Elon Musk is also aware of the bot problem. he chirp In March, “Only verified accounts will be eligible to be in the For You recommendations,” calling it “the only realistic way to deal with the hordes of advanced bots taking over. It’s a desperate losing battle otherwise.”

Harari called for “very strict rules” against “faking people”.

He said, “If you fake people, or allow fake people on your platform without effective countermeasures, we may not execute you, but you will go to prison for 20 years.”

Faced with such consequences, he said, the tech giants will “quickly find ways to prevent platforms from becoming overflowing with fake people.”

As for why such rules didn’t already exist, he noted that until now creating fake people in this way was “technically impossible”. By contrast, counterfeiting money has long been possible, and governments have enacted “very strict rules” against it in order to “protect the financial system”.

He noted that he was not advocating laws against Create Bots like these, but instead, “You’re not allowed to pass them off in public as real people.” Introducing an AI doctor, for example, is fine and “could be very useful,” he said, but only “provided it’s very clear that this is not a human doctor… I need to know if it’s a real human or an AI.” ”

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