How the Eliza Effect threatens AI
Why humans are terrible at seeing AI for what it truly is.
The Eliza Effect describes the tendency of people to attribute human-like qualities to AI – even when they are aware that the program is not truly sentient.
It highlights the human tendency to see intelligence and empathy in machines.
And it’s a problem, whether we’re the ones falling for it or not.
Origins
The Eliza Effect is named after the 1966 chatbot E…
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