The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants
A book-length treatment from Google DeepMind of the risks and opportunities of advanced AI assistants, with substantial chapters on anthropomorphism, appropriate human-AI relationships, manipulation and persuasion, emotional and material dependency, trust, and user well-being. It offers a stakeholder framework and recommendations spanning technical, individual, and societal dimensions.
Key Findings
- Anthropomorphic design can foster inappropriate trust, emotional dependency, and manipulation risks
- Articulates what 'appropriate' human-AI relationships and user-wellbeing safeguards should look like
- Provides a multi-stakeholder framework for evaluating relational and persuasive harms from assistants
Methodology Notes
Lab publication / research monograph (arXiv 2404.16244, 2024-04-24), authored by a large DeepMind-led team. Conceptual/normative synthesis rather than empirical study; durable and widely cited.
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arXiv abstract (primary)
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Authors
Iason Gabriel, Arianna Manzini, Geoff Keeling, et al.
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APA
Iason Gabriel et al. (2024). The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants. Google DeepMind. https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.16244
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