{"id":203003,"date":"2025-01-03T05:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn"},"modified":"2025-01-03T05:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T11:05:09","slug":"coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn","title":{"rendered":"Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take them, researchers warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/coming-ai-driven-economy-will-sell-your-decisions-before-you-take-them-researchers-warn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>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 Intention Economy.<\/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.<\/p>\n<p>\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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Intention Economy. Researchers from Cambridge\u2019s Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence (LCFI) [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-203003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203003\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}