Can digital assistants be used as agents of undue influence? AIs like Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Now, M and Bixby help us to send messages, play music, and set reminders. We can even insult them to get a witty comeback, or ask them to tell us a joke – and then demand they tell us a […]
Little Sister is Listening to You – artificial intelligence and undue influence Read More »
Students are frequently disciplined these days for cut-and-pasting paragraphs from the Internet rather than properly responding to their tutors’ questions. A similar habit is found among academics who speak about “brainwashing” and “cults”. Rather than reading and reviewing Steven Hassan’s new book, Professor Zeller has cut-and-pasted ideas that have been floated repeatedly over the last several decades.
– as approved by Professor Scheflin. Taken from Jon Atack’s Opening Our Minds, avoiding abusive relationships and authoritarian groups (Trentvalley ltd, Colchester, 2021) with permission from the author. Law Professor Alan W. Scheflin coined the phrase The Myth of the Unmalleable Mind which is the basic belief that we are in control of our own
Professor Alan Scheflin’s Social Influence Model (SIM) Read More »