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Will Knight is a senior writer for WIRED, covering artificial intelligence. He says there is concern the technology to replicate people and their voices, could create a new type of addictive technology.

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00:00 There are a lot of questions here, questions about how they generate that voice in particular,
00:09 what are their attitudes are to copyright generally.
00:11 I think other questions beyond the obviously very important objectification of women, as
00:18 you mentioned, is what kind of stress testing they're doing for this technology, what they're
00:24 looking at or how they're looking at how it might influence users.
00:29 The movie Her, I think people forget sometimes that that was a cautionary tale and we're
00:35 already seeing people using these AI chatbots as kind of surrogate girlfriends and boyfriends.
00:42 When they're that much more evocative, as the demo that they gave recently was, it begs
00:47 the question of how much more is it going to influence people, how much more addictive
00:50 is it going to be?
00:51 Are we developing a new technology that's going to be that much more addictive?
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