Max Tegmark discusses AI manipulation and machine rights with psychology PhD
tegmark · x · 2026-10-28
Max Tegmark shares a conversation with Meia, who holds a psychology PhD and did her postdoc on human-machine interaction, tackling three questions from a psychology perspective:
- How good is AI at manipulating us when we're prepared?
- Should we build bots in a way that they deserve legal rights?
- Should we try to build AI tools or AI beings?
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