Deception and Manipulation in Generative AI

Understand

Large language models now possess human-level linguistic abilities in many contexts.

• This raises the concern that they can be used to deceive and manipulate on unprecedented scales, for instance spreading political misinformation on social media.
• In future, agentic AI systems might also deceive and manipulate humans for their own ends.
• In this paper, first, I argue that AI-generated content should be subject to stricter standards against deception and manipulation than we ordinarily apply to humans.