Should AI steal your job? People are fighting back

When MIT professor Joseph Weizenbaum created one of the first chatbots in the mid-1960s, he received two shocks in quick succession. The first was how readily people anthropomorphised the rudimentary program, which he called Eliza.

“What I had not realised is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people,” he wrote in his 1976 book Computer Power and Human Reason.

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