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Here, we reassemble bits and pieces from across the previous essays to conduct a policy analysis of, and make a recommendation regarding, the Next Big Thing in artificial intelligence, the forthcoming creation of “emotionally sentient” systems that can understand—and manipulate—human emotional responses at and across various timescales. Although civilian uses of the technology will clearly be aimed at marketing something—goods, services, compliance with the desires and intents of a purported authority, and so on—there is considerable potential for “dual use” of such machineries on Clausewitz landscapes of conflict and contention.
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Wallace, R. (2020). An Emerging Catastrophe: The Weaponization of Emotional Sentience in AI. In: Cognitive Dynamics on Clausewitz Landscapes. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-26424-6_12
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