Generative AI ChatGPT As Masterful Manipulator Of Humans, Worrying AI Ethics And AI Law

Generative AI such as ChatGPT have been carrying on interactive online conversations meant to ... [ ] manipulate humans, raising serious concerns, We've all dealt with those manipulative personalities that try to convince us that up is down and aim to gaslight us into the most unsettling of conditions. Their rhetoric can be overtly powerful and overwhelming. You can't decide what to do. Should you merely cave in and hope that the verbal tirade will end? But if you are played into doing something untoward, acquiescing might be quite endangering. Trying to verbally fight back is bound to be ugly and can devolve into even worse circumstances. It can be a no-win situation, that's for sure. The manipulator wants and demands that things go their way. For them, the only win possible is that you completely capitulate to their professed bidding. They will incessantly verbally pound away with their claims of pure logic and try to make it appear as though they are occupying the high ground. You are made to seem inconsequential and incapable. Any number of verbal tactics will be launched at you, over and over again. Repetition and steamrolling are the insidious tools of those maddening manipulators. Turns out that we not only need to be on the watch for humans that are manipulators, but we now also need to be wary of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that does likewise. AI can be a masterful manipulator of humans. When it comes to AI, there is the hoped-for AI For Good, while in the same breath, we are faced with AI For Bad. I've previously covered in my columns that AI is considered to have a dual-use capacity, see my analysis at the link here. Seems that if we can make AI that can generate amazingly fluent and upbeat essays, the same capacity can be readily switched over to produce tremendously wrongful bouts of fluently overbearing manipulations. This is especially impactful when experienced in an interactive conversational dialogue with the AI. All of this happens via a type of AI known as Generative AI.