Research shows that artificial intelligence can copy human personality in just 2 hours

Imagine your personality being replicated by an artificial intelligence that can act like you. This was the idea that scientists from Stanford University and professionals from Google DeepMind had while conducting an experiment with more than 1000 volunteers. your personality and ideas become ‘simulation agents’.

The study brought together 1,052 participants to answer an interview that lasted approximately 2 hours and covered a variety of topics, including thoughts on social issues and even life stories. All this material was recorded and used simulation agents, that is, creating a kind of “digital copy” of these people’s behavior.

The agents were then subjected to a series of new tests to be compared with their human counterparts. People also took the test again 15 days later and the results were compared to the simulation agents. 85% accuracy at response level.

Ethical and moral implications

He holds a PhD in Computer Science from Stanford University, according to the person responsible for the study. The idea of ​​performing simulations with these agents is to facilitate and provide researchers with more freedom when conducting experiments.. By collecting all this data and enabling artificial intelligence to mimic some of human thoughts and personality, studies become easier to conduct because there is no need to select people.

But, Such behavior causes ethical dilemmas in science practices.Because the data transmitted by intermediaries is only a part of the human personality simulated in the digital environment. Although the accuracy level in the tests is high, it is not 100%, so there is a possibility that these digital people will make decisions that a human would not normally make, for better or worse.

Personality simulation can also cause other problems: improvements deepfake systemsIt can use human reactions to create images and videos that are increasingly realistic and difficult to detect.