{"id":136258,"date":"2024-12-30T09:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-12-30T07:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/coming-ai-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn\/"},"modified":"2024-12-30T09:00:58","modified_gmt":"2024-12-30T07:00:58","slug":"coming-ai-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/coming-ai-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Coming AI economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136258\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing \u201cintentions\u201d in real-time to companies that can meet the need \u2013 before we even realise we have made up our minds. This is according to AI ethicists from the University of Cambridge, who say we are at the dawn of a \u201clucrative yet troubling new marketplace for digital signals of intent\u201d, from buying movie tickets to voting for candidates. They call this the &#8221;Intention Economy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers from Cambridge\u2019s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) argue that the explosion in generative AI, and our increasing familiarity with chatbots, opens a new frontier of \u201cpersuasive technologies\u201d \u2013 one hinted at in recent corporate announcements by tech giants. \u201cAnthropomorphic\u201d AI agents, from chatbot assistants to digital tutors and girlfriends, will have access to vast quantities of intimate psychological and behavioural data, often gleaned via informal, conversational spoken dialogue.<\/p>\n<p>This AI will combine knowledge of our online habits with an uncanny ability to attune to us in ways we find comforting \u2013 mimicking personalities and anticipating desired responses \u2013 to build levels of trust and understanding that allow for social manipulation on an industrial scale, say researchers. \u201cTremendous resources are being expended to position AI assistants in every area of life, which should raise the question of whose interests and purposes these so-called assistants are designed to serve\u201d, said LCFI Visiting Scholar Dr Yaqub Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat people say when conversing, how they say it, and the type of inferences that can be made in real-time as a result, are far more intimate than just records of online interactions\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe caution that AI tools are already being developed to elicit, infer, collect, record, understand, forecast, and ultimately manipulate and commodify human plans and purposes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dr Jonnie Penn, an historian of technology from Cambridge\u2019s LCFI, said: \u201cFor decades, attention has been the currency of the internet. Sharing your attention with social media platforms such as Facebook and Instagram drove the online economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnless regulated, the intention economy will treat your motivations as the new currency. It will be a gold rush for those who target, steer, and sell human intentions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should start to consider the likely impact such a marketplace would have on human aspirations, including free and fair elections, a free press, and fair market competition, before we become victims of its unintended consequences.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a new Harvard Data Science Review paper, Penn and Chaudhary write that the intention economy will be the attention economy \u201cplotted in time\u201d: profiling how user attention and communicative style connects to patterns of behaviour and the choices we end up making. \u201cWhile some intentions are fleeting, classifying and targeting the intentions that persist will be extremely profitable for advertisers,\u201d said Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>In an intention economy, Large Language Models or LLMs could be used to target, at low cost, a user\u2019s cadence, politics, vocabulary, age, gender, online history, and even preferences for flattery and ingratiation, write the researchers. This information-gathering would be linked with brokered bidding networks to maximize the likelihood of achieving a given aim, such as selling a cinema trip (\u201cYou mentioned feeling overworked, shall I book you that movie ticket we\u2019d talked about?\u201d). This could include steering conversations in the service of particular platforms, advertisers, businesses, and even political organisations, argue Penn and Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>While researchers say the intention economy is currently an \u201caspiration\u201d for the tech industry, they track early signs of this trend through published research and the hints dropped by several major tech players.<\/p>\n<p>These include an open call for \u201cdata that expresses human intention\u2026 across any language, topic, and format\u201d in a 2023 OpenAI blogpost, while the director of product at Shopify \u2013 an OpenAI partner \u2013 spoke of chatbots coming in \u201cto explicitly get the user\u2019s intent\u201d at a conference the same year. Nvidia\u2019s CEO has spoken publicly of using LLMs to figure out intention and desire, while Meta released \u201cIntentonomy\u201d research, a dataset for human intent understanding, back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, Apple\u2019s new \u201cApp Intents\u201d developer framework for connecting apps to Siri (Apple\u2019s voice-controlled personal assistant), includes protocols to \u201cpredict actions someone might take in future\u201d and \u201cto suggest the app intent to someone in the future using predictions you [the developer] provide\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI agents such as Meta\u2019s CICERO are said to achieve human level play in the game Diplomacy, which is dependent on inferring and predicting intent, and using persuasive dialogue to advance one\u2019s position,\u201d said Chaudhary.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese companies already sell our attention. To get the commercial edge, the logical next step is to use the technology they are clearly developing to forecast our intentions, and sell our desires before we have even fully comprehended what they are.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Penn points out that these developments are not necessarily bad, but have the potential to be destructive. \u201cPublic awareness of what is coming is the key to ensuring we don\u2019t go down the wrong path,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/news-releases\/1069081\">EurekAlert<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/coming-ai-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn\/\">Coming AI economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[17440,1647,606,607,608],"class_list":["post-136258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-ai-economy","tag-decision","tag-vau_viikkokatsaus","tag-vauen","tag-vaufien"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}