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AI System Detects Social Norm Violations

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AI System Detects Social Norm Violations - Neuroscience News

Key Facts:

The AI system uses ten categories of social emotions to identify violations of social norms.
The system has been tested on two large datasets of short texts, validating its models.
This preliminary work, funded by DARPA, is seen as a significant step in improving cross-cultural language understanding and situational awareness.

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This will absolutely be used to oppress the neurodivergent at some point
- Everyone, starting with the neurodivergent. Or some other favoured boogieman-of-the-day such as LGBT+ people.
- Then it's all Butlerian Jihad, bay-bee!
- Could be helpful if it silently (or at least subtly) warns the user that they're approaching those boundaries. I wouldn't mind a little extra assistance preventing those embarrassing after-the-fact realizations. It'd have to be done in a way that preserves privacy though.
  
  Like most scientific and technical advances, it could be an amazing tool for personal use. It won’t, of course. It will be used to make someone rich even richer, and to control or oppress people. Gotta love humanity.
  
  Still dangerous, an authority could subtly shift those boundries in order to slowly push your behaviour in a desired direction.

Making an AI that detects violations of social norms itself sounds like a violation of social norms
- Odd, the AI says it isn't. It must be you that is in violation.

As long as this doesn't get repurposed to regulate "social credit", this is fine.
- That's the scary part of it. Idc how good it is, but if it starts to be used to censor information and rate humans, that's the line.
  
  The line will come far far FAR before that
  
  but if it starts to be used to censor information and rate humans, that's the line.
  That line has already been crossed. Since it's already been crossed, it's inevitable that this will be used in that way.

there is no application for this that is actually good
- It could help identify and measure people on the autistic spectrum or similar.
  
  And what good comes of possibly covertly testing individuals to an autism test.
  What does the examiner do with the results? Or what does their boss do with the results?
  No good!
  
  Yeah I don’t think anyone using this to do that is going to do good things with that information

Why are we letting an AI determine social norms? Social Norms changes like every 5 years.

My dumb autistic ass be all like

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