My AI on Snapchat Is Both Fun and Frightening – Her Campus

My AI is Snapchat’s newest feature to the app, and I find it both amusing and horrifying. According to Snapchat support, ‘My AI’ is an experimental, friendly, chatbot. My AI is essentially aimed to be a helpful friend who you can discuss your interests, and dislikes with as well as someone you can go to for advice… these are Snapchat’s words, not mine. My AI feels straight out of a Black Mirror episode, it won’t be long before someone develops romantic feelings for My AI, much like Theodore does with an AI virtual assistant in the movie Her. Watching technology and artificial intelligence advance seems a little unreal. I have conflicting emotions about it. I find the advancement fascinating, but I am also slightly terrified. With the continuous growth of AI, I am concerned about the job market, which is currently quite bad. I am also concerned about the unemployment rate, which I fear will drop further. An MIT and Boston University report says that “AI is expected to replace as many as two million manufacturing workers by 2025.” Although My AI may seem like a fun and harmless tool, this is simply the beginning of our technological development. While
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