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I’ve had a few messages about the NYT and Guardian story about the youth suicide in relation to Character AI. Beyond this being grim and heart-wrenching for family and friends, my reaction is one for a call to awareness of how sophisticated these systems are. Characters may be highly nuanced and complex, and these aren’t the dumb chatbots of old. They’re not just text-based either, users are encouraged to call them. There’s a clear need for strong governance – formal regulation as well as anything else – but it’s going to be tricky regarding people officially labelled adults (I’d struggle to call my 18yr old self an adult). There’s lots of harms and problems to go at, but I’d suggest keen consideration of psychological and emotional entanglement, involving “conative imagination” (wanting something to be true). This may sound overly academic, but a real risk here is that any regulatory solutions based on rationality will likely fail (e.g. platform messages stating that what characters say is fictional). The other is a general questioning of whose interests these companions are acting in. These systems are built to encourage users to provide more intimate insights to extend engagement. The glaring upshot is a business model based, at least in part, on profits from emotion and psychological pain. This is not good at all.

We need your votes for the opportunity to speak at SxS2 2025 please! My mind is already blown by Manuel Garcia-Garcia, PhD's introduction.... so many interesting things: - Consumer psychology - Neuroscience - The rise of AI - The impact on consumer behaviours And as if that is not enough: there will be a book!!! #CX #neuroscience #consumerpsychology #AI

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We need to demand more from our data: The safety, security, and confidence we have in the information we generate, and the information we consume, contributes to our health and well-being just like the food we eat. Consuming bad data and bad insights can make us unhealthy and lead us astray, affect our mental health, and negatively impact our lives. That’s why we need to ask more from those who serve us data, and why we make an absolute commitment to transparency and accountability when it comes to generating models and helping farmers sustain and improve their livelihoods. #AI #AgInnovation #DigitalFarming

CONSCIENCE or DATA -which one is plausible & reliable?! Psychologists and all those involved in mind game analysis have taught us to put up a strong face despite bleakness in the back. You are what you think is alright to elevate the mood for positive thinking and is a must too, in life for peace and success. Nevertheless, this exacting attitude percolated ditto in all our human actions, especially administration and has become a tool in the hands of Administration to weild the way they want to let people feel it to be so! They simply go by Media Theory of Use & Gratification. Some time back, Data Analysis was the less adaptive mechanism when it comes to analyse some public scenario or functional set up. Previously, the glitch used to be known by putting a finger on the pulse or malfunction of the pump or any mechanical activity including social anomaly by mood of the people. It was highly judgemental with value added judgement. No data, no unnecessary image-making, no political expediencies with their admixturing nuisance and so on. Things by certain actions were enough to be back on rail. And more importantly, this job was done by conscience keepers without any trash or trace of doubt or myopic inclinations to fissiparous tendencies to form a vicious cycle of ills, evils and guilt. Now, data is oil and data is being manuevered and tortured to prove a point of make-believe. As of now, we are facing a dilemma on two different fronts concerning reality check to have data being the point of fundamental research of tearing at the root cause. One is caste-based census which is a hot topic of the parliamentary debate and largely, has to do with data to reach conclusive judgement and improve the situation.The another is to showing, economically, a rosy picture where data is the main source of putting picture upfront. Are they not too, optimistic or intentionally and persistently political about certain data either made out or made to be so to display everything is hunky dory or contrary?! The nutshell is that in the former scenario where data really required is running away from reality check. The latter where actual picture of dismay and despondency to be brought forth for reality check is being played around for a false positivity and lullabying the people for utopian. SULTAN AKHTAR PATEL

As AI continues to integrate into our daily work lives, it's essential to acknowledge the potential risks of burnout. While AI can automate repetitive tasks and increase productivity, over-reliance on these tools can lead to mental fatigue and decreased job satisfaction. To mitigate this, it's crucial to establish clear boundaries and guidelines for AI usage, ensuring that humans and machines collaborate effectively. By doing so, we can harness the benefits of AI while maintaining a healthy work-life balance. LinkedIn News

Knowing the pernicious effect of ageism, the financial planning industry should account for the length and expense of elder living? The challenges of longevity, the concerns of aging, continue to point up to the question of “ Will I outlive by money” and Wealth Advisors need to focus on more then Retirement Living. Aging in Place,The Risks of Cognitive Decline and The risk of Health Care all starts to converge at the corner of Wealth manement, Age Tech and Risk Management. The Financial Advisors will transform into Life Coaches. AI will also be impactful positive and negatively on the conversation with the ageing populations and the Wealth Advisor. A great and enlightening conversation with Chris Heye, PhD . Add this talk to your list of “ Must Listen” to conversations.

Things that caught my attention in the past week:   1. David Mattin put out a couple of mind-bending notes on simulated worlds. A recent Standford study created 1,052 AI agents in a social simulation (based on 2-hr interviews with real people), which ended up mirroring real human behaviour with 85% accuracy. Elsewhere, text-to-virtual world models are becoming increasingly more sophisticated, and these tech advancements may end up leading us in time to have a different understanding of reality. As to whether or not we're currently, living in a sim, it doesn't really make a difference: might as well enjoy Christmas for now.   2. Over a million Americans have died in the opioid crisis this millenium, but recent data shows a meaningful drop in the pace of deaths. Nobody knows why; it's unlikely to be solely down to addiction treatment; supply constraints given pressure on Mexican cartels may also be at play. The drop could also be just a correction in an upward trend, following an acceleration around Covid. But if the trend is sustained, it might be a more morbid explanation: that the crisis is just burning out because most of those vulnerable have already died.   Couple of charts on no.2 in the comments.   Also if you're keen to sign up to my dinner aimed at bringing interesting people together who wouldn't usually cross paths, join us via the link in my profile - 120 signed up so far. #data #ai #networking

Chatbots and artificial intelligence tools gobbling up toxic social media and spitting out questionable information may prove a doozy for people trying to discern good intel from bad. But misinformation that creates confusion and sows division is nothing new. In fact, America is built on it. For centuries, powerful men have spun myths into language and laws that shape U.S. culture. To build better political, social and economic systems, we must expose the misinformation they’re based on. The latest Invisible Threads features the myth-busting, investigative work of journalist Antonia Hylton, author of  Madness: Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum.  https://lnkd.in/e9KdF_qA