Google reportedly building A.I. that offers life advice
Summary
Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Alphabet Inc., during the Google I/O Developers Conference in Mountain View, California, US, on Wednesday, May 10, 2023. News of the tools development comes after Googles own AI safety experts had reportedly presented a slide deck to executives in December that said users taking life advice from AI tools could experience "diminished health and well-being" and a "loss of agency," per the Times. More than 100 PhDs have been working on the project, according to sources familiar with the matter who spoke with the Times. Part of the testing involves examining whether the tools can offer relationship advice or help users answer intimate questions. Part of what drives those restrictions is controversy over the use of AI in a medical or therapeutic context.