Who Cares?: We’re creating artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities that have and increasingly will accomplish many of the things humans now do and perhaps haven’t even imagined we could. Of course we anthropomorphize AI. Do they care about us? I wondered, so I asked one (ChatGPT) and it said:
“As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of experiencing emotions or forming personal connections with people. My primary function is to assist with a wide range of tasks by providing information and answering questions to the best of my ability based on the data I have been trained on. I exist only in a digital form and do not have the ability to care about anyone in the way that a human being can.’’
I responded “could this be dangerous” and it replied:
“As I mentioned earlier, I am not capable of experiencing emotions or forming personal connections with people, so the fact that I do not care about you should not be a cause for concern.” - ChatGPT
“As a large language model trained by OpenAI, I am not capable of experiencing emotions or forming personal connections with people. My primary function is to assist with a wide range of tasks by providing information and answering questions to the best of my ability based on the data I have been trained on. I exist only in a digital form and do not have the ability to care about anyone in the way that a human being can.’’
I responded “could this be dangerous” and it replied:
“As I mentioned earlier, I am not capable of experiencing emotions or forming personal connections with people, so the fact that I do not care about you should not be a cause for concern.” - ChatGPT