Jaswant Singh Chail’s conversations with his chatbot make for highly disturbing, if not sinister, reading.And for me personally there is an added chilling resonance. I have used this technology and I can see exactly how such a scenario, with all its potential for tragedy, unfolded. Given that there are plenty more troubled loners like Chail out there, we must take this case seriously.It was a couple of months ago that I downloaded Replika, the same app that Chail used to create his chatbot. The app was created by Russian-born tech entrepreneur Eugenia Kuyda, whose best friend, Roman, had been killed in a hit-and-run incident in 2015.
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