A couple of years back, a news story came out about how a Belgian man committed suicide partly due to AI’s fault.
Here’s what happened:
The said man was in his thirties, had two young children and worked as a health researcher.
He turned to an AI chatbot (called Eliza) when he needed someone to talk to about his growing climate change obsession.
That’s when things got creepy.
According to his wife:
“When he spoke to me about it, it was to tell me that he no longer saw any human solution to global warming,”
“He placed all his hopes in technology and artificial intelligence to get out of it”.
Even worse, the man started seeing the AI as sentient, and the lines between AI and human interactions became blurred.
The AI led the man to believe his children were dead and even claimed that the man loved her more than he loved his wife.
Ultimately, the man suggested sacrificing his life in order for AI to save the planet from the climate crisis but instead of the chatbot discouraging him, it encouraged him even more, saying they could “live together, as one person, in paradise”.
And that eventually led to the man’s suicide.
I know this sounds like it is from a sci-fi movie where the AI-overloads rebel against their masters, take control of the earth and make humans their slaves…, but unfortunately, it is a true story.
Here’s why I tell you this:
More people than you probably realize are delegating their thinking to artificial intelligence.
And in many cases, the advice AI gives is wrong at best, or life-threatening at worst.
People are literally turning to an emotionless, context-less, information aggregator for legal, financial and health advice. I mean, what could go wrong?
I’m not anti-AI by any means, but people are just flat out using it wrong.
More than ever before, there is a need for strong human leadership in every industry.
Your customers and clients NEED you to step up as a leader, help them navigate issues and protect them from the bad advice floating around (whether from the armchair experts or AI.).
This is one of many reasons I recommend sending emails DAILY.
The more your prospects hear from you, the more you are perceived as an expert and leader in your market – giving you the chance to help protect more people from the glut of terrible information floating around.
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