Comment by krupan

The way the safety concerns are written, I get the impression it has more to do with humans' mental health and loss of values.

I really think we are building manipulation machines. Yes, they are smart, they can do meaningful work, but they are manipulating and lying to us the whole time. So many of us end up in relationships with people who are like that. We also choose people who are very much like that to lead us. Is it any wonder that a) people like that are building machines that act like that, and b) so many of us are enamored with those machines?

Here's a blog post that describes playing hangman with Gemini recently. It very well illustrates this:

https://bryan-murdock.blogspot.com/2026/02/is-this-game-or-i...

I completely understand wanting to build powerful machines that can solve difficult problems and make our lives easier/better. I have never understood why people think that machine should be human-like at all. We know exactly how intelligent powerful humans largely behave. Do we really want to automate that and dial it up to 11?