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AI-obsessed moms and dads are using the tech for parenting in bizarre and downright dystopian ways that’ll bring out your inner luddite.
In a new Business Insider piece, a cognitive neuroscientist named Sarah Baldeo described how she spent the past year traveling for work. Her solution to stay present for her 15-year-old son while she was away: building a custom AI clone of herself.
Baldeo says she programmed the chatbot with her personality by uploading screenshots of texts between her and her son, as well as documents outlining her values and family rules. She encouraged her son to ask the AI advice — which he did.
Being a teenager, the son used the chatbot in some creative ways. One of the questions he asked the AI was how to convince his flesh and blood mom to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago, producing the kind of platitudinal spiel we’ve come to expect from the tech. (“Your mom very much values new experiences,” it began.)
“My instinctual reaction after the fact was, ‘oh my gosh, I was manipulated by my own reasoning,'” Baldeo told BI. “I reflected on it and I thought, that’s a really clever way to use it, because that’s not how I built it.”
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In a new Business Insider piece, a cognitive neuroscientist named Sarah Baldeo described how she spent the past year traveling for work. Her solution to stay present for her 15-year-old son while she was away: building a custom AI clone of herself.
Baldeo says she programmed the chatbot with her personality by uploading screenshots of texts between her and her son, as well as documents outlining her values and family rules. She encouraged her son to ask the AI advice — which he did.
Being a teenager, the son used the chatbot in some creative ways. One of the questions he asked the AI was how to convince his flesh and blood mom to let him hang out at a coffee shop in Chicago, producing the kind of platitudinal spiel we’ve come to expect from the tech. (“Your mom very much values new experiences,” it began.)
“My instinctual reaction after the fact was, ‘oh my gosh, I was manipulated by my own reasoning,'” Baldeo told BI. “I reflected on it and I thought, that’s a really clever way to use it, because that’s not how I built it.”
Mom Who Travels For Work Builds AI Clone of Herself to Keep Her Teenage Son Company
The mom created an AI clone with her personality and values that her 15-year-old son could ask for advice while she was away for work.
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