Me and My Evil Digital Twin: The Psychology of Human Exploitation by AI Assistants

Within the past 60-90 days, the ChatGPT and GPT-4 large language models (LLMs) have taken the world by storm. Last year, a Google engineer became so convinced that a model was sentient that he violated his NDA. Two years ago, few were taking the prospect of the emergence of artificial general intelligence (AGI) seriously. Today, even conservative experts suggest a much quicker timeline. The truth, as we will show, is much stranger: humans will perceive LLMs as sentient long before …

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