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A lot of people are worried about a I and

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it's effects on humanity's future. And now, despite

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it sounding like science fiction, it turns out a

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I might be able to manipulate the way humans think

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. Using a recurrent neural network and deep reinforcement learning

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AI system, researchers at Ciro's Data 61 were able

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to identify and exploit human decision making processes. The

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tasks were simple, either click or red and blue

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box and when hypothetical cash or get people to make

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mistake's in another task by actively building deliberately more difficult

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pattern identification puzzles. But in both cases, the

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AI increased human failure by 70% in the box clicking

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task and nearly 25% in the pattern identification task.

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If that's not real world enough for you. A

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third experiment was conducted where the AI posed as a

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financial trustee. Human participants were playing the part of

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an investor and giving money to the AI trustee every

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round in both the fair distribution version of the game

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, where everyone was supposed to get equal shares,

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and the version where the A I was supposed to

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get a much money as it could, it succeeded

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. Researchers say that while simple, these experiments paint

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a clear picture of how machines could be used to

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manipulate people, especially online, when we're not aware

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, we're interacting with an AI at all.