We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’

The allure of AI companions is hard to resist. Here’s how innovation in regulation can help protect people.

AI companionship is no longer theoretical—our analysis of a million ChatGPT interaction logs reveals that the second most popular use of AI is sexual role-playing. We are already starting to invite AIs into our lives as friends, lovers, mentors, therapists, and teachers.

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We need to prepare for ‘addictive intelligence’

Four pathways to an AI culture | Barcelona Metròpolis | Barcelona City Council

Creative skills can currently be reproduced using deep learning and neural networks, but their true potential lies in the prospects of collaboration rather than replacement. Two distinct subjectivities, one human and one automated, can meet halfway and produce a captivating mutual symbolic space, brimming with possibilities, but also with dead ends. It is both too early and arrogant to hazard a guess as to the artistic impact AI will exert in the medium term.

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Four pathways to an AI culture | Barcelona Metròpolis | Barcelona City Council