AI’s Real Threat: Mass Manipulation

From Sabine Hossenfelder.

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The AI revolution is already here, but not as you think. Companies all over the world are working very hard at “microtargeting” you with their ads and tracking your every online-move. Scammers are having a good time with deepfakes, and scientists help along by figuring out how to best use AI to engineer human behavior. Let’s take a look at a few examples, and how AI might be further weaponized in the future.

Paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-025-02194-6

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