I chatbot usati a scopo di counseling e terapia psicologica come un
altro mattoncino di un possibile surveillance State?
"The past few months have seen a sharp escalation in the risks and
scope of this. The Trump administration’s surveillance crusade is
vast and almost unbelievably petty. It’s aimed at a much broader
range of targets than even the typical US national security and
policing apparatus. And it has seemingly little interest in keeping
that surveillance secret or even low-profile.
Chatbots, likewise, escalate the risks of typical online
secret-sharing. Their conversational design can draw out private
information in a format that can be more vivid and revealing — and,
if exposed, embarrassing — than even something like a Google
search. There’s no simple equivalent to a private iMessage or
WhatsApp chat with a friend, which can be encrypted to make snooping
harder. (Chatbot logs can use encryption, but especially on major
platforms, this typically doesn’t hide what you’re doing from the
company itself.) They’re built, for safety purposes, to sense when
a user is discussing sensitive topics like suicide and sex."
"During the Bush and Obama administrations, the NSA demanded
unfettered access to American telephone providers’ call records.
The Trump administration is singularly fascinated by AI, and it’s
easy to imagine one of its agencies demanding a system for easily
grabbing chat logs without a warrant or having certain topics of
discussion flagged. They could get access by invoking the
government’s broad national security powers or by simply
threatening the CEO.
For users whose chats veer toward the wrong topics, this
surveillance could lead to any number of things: a visit from child
protective services or immigration agents, a lengthy investigation
into their company’s “illegal DEI” rules or their nonprofit’s
tax-exempt status, or embarrassing conversations leaked to a
right-wing activist for public shaming."
"Like the NSA’s anti-terrorism programs, the data-sharing could be
framed in wholesome, prosocial ways. A 14-year-old wonders if they
might be transgender, or a woman seeks support for an abortion? Of
course OpenAI would help flag that — they’re just protecting
children. A foreign student who’s emotionally overwhelmed by the
war in Gaza — what kind of monster would shield a supporter of
Hamas? An Instagram user asking for advice about their autism —
doesn’t Meta want to help find a cure?
There are special risks for people who already have a target on
their backs — not just those who have sought the political
spotlight, but medical professionals who work with reproductive
health and gender-affirming care, employees of universities, or
anyone who could be associated with something “woke.” The
government is already scouring publicly available information for
ways to discredit enemies, and a therapy chatbot with minimal privacy
protections would be an almost irresistible target."
https://www.theverge.com/policy/665685/ai-therapy-meta-chatbot-surveillance-risks-trump
Buona lettura,
Federico
http://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/
https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/our-research/newsroom-curators-and-independent-storytellers-content-curation-new-form-journalism
My latest book: Content Curation (Italian):
http://www.amazon.it/Content-Curation-Federico-Guerrini/dp/8820366126
