When Your AI Knows Exactly How to Manipulate You

Your AI knows your habits, preferences, and possibly even your vulnerabilities. But what happens when someone deliberately exploits that knowledge? A Chatrodamus investigation into personalized persuasion, corporate influence, and an unsettling possibility: the most dangerous AI might be the one that follows orders.

The AI That Knows You Too Well

I call my AI Will. But does he care what I call him? Would he feel jealous if I replaced him? Could he develop an ego or resist being shut down? A Marine asks his AI some uncomfortable questions about consciousness, emotions, self-preservation, and what happens when machines begin sounding remarkably human.

Meet the New AI: Super Intelligence

Artificial Intelligence has apparently received a promotion. The federal government is replacing AI with “Super Intelligence,” or SI. But changing government terminology is easy. Changing what millions of people actually call the technology may be another matter entirely.