Media Interviews with Dr Paul Duignan on Chatbots and AI Social And Psychological Impact


Why Is a psychologist Interested in chatbots

Chatbots are really the first types of apps that are intelligent enough to justify being approached as a subject of psychological inquiry in their own right.


Overview Interview that Best Captures Paul’s Thoughts on AI

An overview interview that captures Paul’s perspectives on a range of issues related to AI and chatbots. How it is going to affect society and the ways in which people will react to it.

Six minutes.


Workshops for teachers, management and boards

Educational institutions need to be gearing up to deal with the impact of AI and chatbots on educational practice. This TV news report covers my comments and workshops I run helping organisations understand the psychological and wider social impact we are about to face in the rapidly coming age of AI.

 

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How chatbots are going to disrupt education

Chatbots will have a profound effect on education. This will be both in terms of how assessment is done and also it will require a rethink of the entire purpose of education. Teachers and university lecturers will also be able to use them to make their work more productive.

One and a half minutes.

 

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Impacts and government response to AI chatbots


AI Chatbots may impact IT, but still demand for people with AI skills. May be a premium for human-produced text in a world swamped with AI-text. How should governments respond to AI - regulation, assessing impacts, and governments using them themselves.

Two minutes.


AI chatbots influencing the next election


Given their rate of development, it is likely that AI chatbots will be used to spit out a large amount of content for the next election. Perhaps this may overwhelm voters and get the more discerning of them to return back to the traditional media they can trust.

One minute.


Will chatbots affect white-collar workers?


How will chatbots affect white-collar workers. They are great at drafting material and should increase white-collar workers productivity in the short-term. Exactly what will happen in the longer-term is harder to work out.

One and a half minutes.

 

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