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by jprete 550 days ago
That's going to be a good standard for a few years, until chatbots are too sophisticated for us to expect average adults to be sufficiently skeptical of their arguments.
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I see two weaknesses in this argument. First, you're assigning eventual superpower-like intelligence to these AI bots. I see this a lot and I feel like it's rooted in speculation based on pop-culture sci-fi AI tropes.

Second, restricting adult access to "dangerous ideas and information" is a slippery slope. The exercise of speech and press that the British considered to be treasonous preceded the American Revolution.

I don't care about average - I care about below average adults. (and a lot of us are sometimes below average adults)
A below average adult might not realize A Modest Proposal is satire. Should we ban it so they don't try to eat Irish kids?