AI Is Learning to Manipulate Us, and We Don’t Know Exactly How

Trying to decide what to give your brother for Christmas? Where to invest your savings? Whether to paint the kitchen white or yellow? Don’t worry! AI is here to help. And that’s scary.

By Avery Hurt
Nov 30, 2021 6:00 AMNov 30, 2021 6:01 AM
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It’s no secret that the tech giants gather (and buy and sell) tremendous amounts of data about their customers, which is almost all of us. We may rightly worry about how much of our personal data is in the hands of private companies. But we might spend less time thinking about what exactly they do with that data — including using artificial intelligence (AI) to exploit human decision-making.

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