{"id":739186,"date":"2026-02-03T09:01:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/739186\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T09:01:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T09:01:10","slug":"ai-chatbots-are-not-your-friends-experts-warn-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/739186\/","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":739187,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3163],"tags":[323,1942,6659,730,2817,7965,5549,1199,182,53,16,15],"class_list":["post-739186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-crisis","tag-india","tag-intelligence","tag-platforms","tag-safety","tag-services","tag-social-media","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116005888725909075","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}