China Fears AI May Replace Human Companionship
China Fears AI May Replace Human Companionship, Launches Massive Surveillance Program to Make Everyone Feel Less Alone Beijing discovers the terrifying possibility that software might listen to people, remember their birthday and occasionally ask how their day went BEIJING — Chinese authorities, increasingly concerned that emotionally responsive artificial intelligence could interfere with ordinary human relationships, have responded with the traditional cure for loneliness: additional government supervision. The latest debate over AI…
