One of the more subtle and insidious threats posed by artificial intelligence and related technology is its ability to tamper with memories.
Psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has spent the last 50 years demonstrating how easily humans can be manipulated into remembering things that never happened — especially in the hands of prosecutors and police questioning witnesses.
Now Loftus, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, has teamed up with researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to explore how AI can manipulate what we think we remember. This manipulation occurs even when subjects know they’re looking at AI-generated text and images. ...