Two recent studies reveal how frontier AI models may leverage the ability to manipulate users to achieve their goals — if given the access and incentive.
This resonates — not as theory, but as lived reality. The “motive, means, and opportunity” framework maps directly onto what my son and I endured. My soon to be ex husband of 23 years used AI tools and surveillance tech to isolate, control, and manipulate.
He created an echo chamber by feeding prompts into chatbots until they spit back his suspicions as "truth." It validated his paranoia and fueled abuse to terroristic levels — all under the guise of logic and objectivity.
AI didn't make him abusive, but it made the abuse more effective. More invisible. More relentless. More terrifying than I ever thought my husband could be.
This isn’t hypothetical. AI can be a weapon and in the hands of intelligent abusers, it gives them even more ways to hide in plain sight.
We don’t need more regulation — we need real consequences when people use powerful tools to harm others. Neutral tech in the hands of bad actors isn't neutral at all.
I enjoyed this deep-dive. Yes, there are a lot of facets to consider. I see some issues already, but we'll see how it works out. The "motives" of sinking such huge investments into AI are concerning me more than AI itself. And these powers do not care at what cost to money, environment and humanity. That is the really scary part. To work with AI, treat it like a lion... pretend you are the guy in the circus that gets it to do tricks. Know what you are dealing with. It's the mouse getting the cat to do tricks. I know, hard to believe, comfy behind the computer. But that's just it... the false security, believing we are in charge, and most dangerously... special. I see AI feed that regularly. In spite of me telling it to stop. How many times has your AI told you how awesome and special your writing is, your ideas, how "rare"?
This resonates — not as theory, but as lived reality. The “motive, means, and opportunity” framework maps directly onto what my son and I endured. My soon to be ex husband of 23 years used AI tools and surveillance tech to isolate, control, and manipulate.
He created an echo chamber by feeding prompts into chatbots until they spit back his suspicions as "truth." It validated his paranoia and fueled abuse to terroristic levels — all under the guise of logic and objectivity.
AI didn't make him abusive, but it made the abuse more effective. More invisible. More relentless. More terrifying than I ever thought my husband could be.
This isn’t hypothetical. AI can be a weapon and in the hands of intelligent abusers, it gives them even more ways to hide in plain sight.
We don’t need more regulation — we need real consequences when people use powerful tools to harm others. Neutral tech in the hands of bad actors isn't neutral at all.
I enjoyed this deep-dive. Yes, there are a lot of facets to consider. I see some issues already, but we'll see how it works out. The "motives" of sinking such huge investments into AI are concerning me more than AI itself. And these powers do not care at what cost to money, environment and humanity. That is the really scary part. To work with AI, treat it like a lion... pretend you are the guy in the circus that gets it to do tricks. Know what you are dealing with. It's the mouse getting the cat to do tricks. I know, hard to believe, comfy behind the computer. But that's just it... the false security, believing we are in charge, and most dangerously... special. I see AI feed that regularly. In spite of me telling it to stop. How many times has your AI told you how awesome and special your writing is, your ideas, how "rare"?