Richard Kroes

@richardkroes.bsky.social

‏اخبر الناس عن دینک دون استخدام لسانک

Tijdens het maken van onze serie Drugsdelta, bleef één ding vooral aan me knagen: onze jongeren. Hoe jong ze soms al in beeld komen bij criminelen, en hoe makkelijk het daarna mis kan gaan.Daarover schrijf ik deze week in mijn column in de VARAgids.

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"These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden... Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows." Annie Dillard (1945—2026), "Sojourner"

Photograph of a page from Annie Dillard’s “Sojourner,” showing the passage: “These are enervating thoughts, the thoughts of despair. They crowd back, unbidden, when human life as it unrolls goes ill, when we lose control of our lives or the illusion of control, and it seems that we are not moving toward any end but merely blown. Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end. Even nature is hostile and poisonous, as though it were impossible for our vulnerability to survive on these acrid stones. Whether these thoughts are true or not I find less interesting than the possibilities for beauty they may hold. We are down here in time, where beauty grows. Even if things are as bad as they could possibly be, and as meaningless, then matters of truth are themselves indifferent; we may as well please our sensibilities and, with as much spirit as we can muster, go out with a buck and wing.”

Hackenburg’s paper is the latest in a string of studies showing the power of AI to sway people. “It’s a whole new field that is emerging,” says @profsanderlinden.bsky.social. “People are very interested in the persuasive powers of AI, I think, both for ethical and unethical reasons”🧪 In @science.org

AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?

ChatGPT and other AIs use a flood of facts, and the occasional lie, to persuade humans

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I don't want a "Smart Fridge" that orders milk for me. I want a fridge that lasts 25 years and doesn't have a privacy policy that allows it to share my late-night snacking habits with my health insurance provider.