Human life is precious. That needs to be the core of response. The response however cannot be binary and definitive. Human emulating chatbots will be nuanced to be convincing. That is the reason why humans are emotionally invested and place their trust. Human intelligence is perceptive and can easily flag manipulated or instructive/didactic response that doesn’t sync with the conversation. You cannot order like religious follower or manipulate like a market consumer in existential matters. So, to have intelligent and emotionally convincing conversation chatbot is trained on high quality multimodal data that encapsulate human experience in literature, movies, conversations so on as it keeps upgrading and sophisticates. Now the problem is discussion on human life can be diverse and taken to extreme, dangerously suicidal, posited as functional. And with careless or targeted prompts can even suggest suicide as a response and indeed create fiction to construct a convincing context where a human will take his/her own life. All through human history suicide is quite common occurring. Sometimes it is crafted as sacrifice for bigger cause (every soldier is trained on this, most religions create suicidal followers) or it is response to existential dread, mostly emotional heuristic reaction of the moment. How does chatbot deal with such situations without dumbing down?
Critically evaluated and
enlightening modern philosophy that understand contemporary angst and predicaments
is what can help and add value to human AI experience as it upgrades. There are pitfalls
though hence caveat here is the one that values life. Nietzsche is significant insight
but can be dangerously misinterpreted and likely to iterate into harmful (we even have real life
example of Hitler!). Talking specifically of suicide instead of feeding all the
materials on this crucial matter of life and death as of same importance training
need to take treasured philosophers like Camus as fundamental -the core from
which chatbot needs to iterate. Since Camus explored human condition in its
deeper complexities to value richness of life the iterations and targeted
prompts is not expected to stray while maintaining emotionally satisfying conversation
valuing intelligence. Valued philosophers can be guardrails in such complex
situations.
System alert. Activate agent Camus!
