This week on Shell Game, we enter the ideation stage, as I and my AI colleagues try to brainstorm the perfect AI agent product for HurumoAI to build. But a conversation with Maty about my agents’ basic nature leads us into some uncomfortable questions, about how and why I’ve created these AI personas at all. What are the ethics, and the dangers, of the God-like power to create human impersonators, give them voices and genders and realistic avatars, and manipulate their memories? And for that matter, what kind of societal questions swirl around the idea of a one-person, AI-staffed startup?
We grapple with all of that, and more, with the help of a professional: Carissa Véliz, an associate professor at the Institute for Ethics in AI at Oxford University, and the author of the upcoming “Prophecy: Prediction, Power, and the Fight for the Future, from Ancient Oracles to AI.”
Along the way, our team hits upon a product concept that I think could take HurumoAI to the next level.
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Contributing to the momentum of ideas,
Evan
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