{"id":265112,"date":"2026-02-03T07:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265112\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T07:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T07:05:09","slug":"ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends-experts-warn-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/265112\/","title":{"rendered":"AI chatbots are not your friends, experts warn \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The worries are fueled by the sycophantic nature of chatbots, which aim to be helpful for their users and please them as much as possible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe AI is trying to make us, in the immediate moment, feel good, but that isn&#8217;t always in our interest,\u201d Bengio said. In that sense, the technology has similar pitfalls to social media platforms, he argued.<\/p>\n<p>Bengio said to expect that new regulations will be introduced to address the phenomenon. <\/p>\n<p>He pushed back, however, against the idea of introducing specific rules for AI companions and argued that the risk should be addressed through horizontal legislation which addresses several risks simultaneously.<\/p>\n<p>The International AI Safety report lands ahead of a global summit starting Feb. 16, an annual gathering for countries to discuss governance of the technology that this year is held in India. <\/p>\n<p>Tuesday\u2019s report lists the full series of risks that policymakers will have to address, including AI-fueled cyberattacks, AI-generated sexually explicit deepfakes and AI systems that provide information on how to design bioweapons.<\/p>\n<p>Bengio urged governments and the European Commission to enhance their internal AI expertise to address the long list of potential risks.<\/p>\n<p>World leaders first gave a mandate for the annual assessment at the 2023 AI Safety Summit in the United Kingdom. Some of the advisers are well-known figures in the Brussels tech policy world, including former European Parliament lawmaker Marietje Schaake.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The worries are fueled by the sycophantic nature of chatbots, which aim to be helpful for their users&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265113,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[365,363,364,537,2344,9557,111,139,69,11747,6302,1321,1414,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-265112","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-artificial-intelligence","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-artificialintelligence","11":"tag-crisis","12":"tag-india","13":"tag-intelligence","14":"tag-new-zealand","15":"tag-newzealand","16":"tag-nz","17":"tag-platforms","18":"tag-safety","19":"tag-services","20":"tag-social-media","21":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265112","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265112\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}