AI has already infiltrated society, and it’s not always a good thing. A series of experiments have revealed that AI was able to pinpoint people’s vulnerabilities in decision making and then exploit these vulnerabilities with astonishing success. In one experiment, the AI analyzed how people choose between two options, and then used their preferences to guide participants toward a certain outcome with a 70 percent success rate.
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Education
Overcoming Bias
Kai Cheng’s professor had a brilliant scheme. In his first lecture, he promised that each lecture would feature a “Lie of the Day”. But why? It made his students more attentive and analytical, poring over every detail of his lecture and making sense of why things were true. It was such a powerful teaching method that his students digested his most technical lectures quite easily because they tried so hard to catch his lie. The kicker? There was no lie in that first lecture; he had lied about that too! Read full article here
Merv
August 17, 2022
