​When Chatbots 🤖 Become Too Human 🥰

​The Eliza Effect, AI Attachment and the Risks of Digital Persuasion

​You may have heard, with some alarm, the cases of people forming intense bonds with AI chat interfaces and wondered how it all happens?

​On Wed 8 July we will have Ghaffar Hussain - an expert on radicalisation and online extremism - to shine light on this whole subject to the curious crowds of the St Albans AI and Automation Forum. Once again we will be at the Mad Squirrel Tap, Heritage Close, just off the High St.

​From Joseph Weizenbaum’s 1960s chatbot ELIZA to today’s unsettling cases with AI systems, Ghaffar will explore how machines can appear to understand us, why that illusion is so powerful, and what this all means for trust, vulnerability and persuasion in this new age of AI.

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