{"id":9925,"date":"2014-01-20T21:24:20","date_gmt":"2014-01-21T05:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/?p=9925"},"modified":"2017-04-25T04:17:50","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T11:17:50","slug":"should-ai-makers-be-legally-responsible-for-emotionally-manipulating-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/should-ai-makers-be-legally-responsible-for-emotionally-manipulating-customers","title":{"rendered":"Should AI Makers Be Legally Responsible for Emotionally Manipulating Customers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/authors.john_frank_weaver.html\" rel=\"author\">John Frank Weaver<\/a> \u2014 Slate<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>Harvey Milk <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/641471-gay-brothers-and-sisters-you-must-come-out-come-out\" target=\"_blank\">famously advised<\/a> his \u201cgay brothers and sisters\u201d to come out, but \u201conly to the people you know, and who know you.\u201d He understood the power of human empathy. It is hard to hate people you know and who know you.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ll soon see how human empathy shapes the design of artificial intelligence because, as it turns out, our empathy is so strong we will consider objects people if we can interact with them like people. <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2014\/01\/spike_jonze_s_her_is_a_rorschach_test_for_your_feelings_about_technology.html\">Her<\/a><\/em> played with this idea in a future where Joaquin Phoenix\u2019s Theodore falls in love with his operating system, Samantha. But right now on Indiegogo, you can contribute to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indiegogo.com\/projects\/emospark-first-a-i-home-console\" target=\"_blank\">EmoSPARK<\/a>, \u201cthe first artificial intelligence console committed to your happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/blogs\/future_tense\/2014\/01\/20\/should_ai_makers_be_legally_responsible_for_emotionally_manipulating_customers.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By John Frank Weaver \u2014 Slate Harvey Milk famously advised his \u201cgay brothers and sisters\u201d to come out, but \u201conly to the people you know, and who know you.\u201d He understood the power of human empathy. It is hard to hate people you know and who know you. We\u2019ll soon see how human empathy shapes [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925","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\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9925"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47280,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9925\/revisions\/47280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}