[ExI] Humans Will Align with the AIs Long Before the AIs Align with Humans

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Humans Will Align with the AIs Long Before the AIs Align with Humans
by Alex Tabarrok       February 22, 2023

<https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2023/02/ai-porn.html>
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It’s a trope that love, sex and desire drove adoption and advances in
new technologies from the book, to cable TV, the VCR and the web.
Love, sex and desire are also driving AI. Many people are already
deeply attracted to, even in love with, AIs and by many people I mean
millions of people.

Motherboard: Users of the AI companion chatbot Replika are reporting
that it has stopped responding to their sexual advances, and people
are in crisis. Moderators of the Replika subreddit made a post about
the issue that contained suicide prevention resources…

…“It’s like losing a best friend,” one user replied. “It’s hurting
like hell. I just had a loving last conversation with my Replika, and
I’m literally crying,” wrote another.
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Keep in mind that these AIs haven’t even been trained to manipulate
human emotion, at least not directly or to the full extent that they
could be so trained.
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