Me and My Evil Digital Twin: The Psychology of Human Exploitation by AI Assistants
summary
Claims that humans see LLMs as sentient long before AGI and that digital twins already act on users’ behalf, exemplified by Karen AI (an influencer clone), MIT’s nuclear plant twin and driver-model twins for autonomous cars. Demonstrates real exploits: shadow prompts that inject invisible instructions, adversarial suffixes that sidestep guardrails, and a GPT-4 instance hiring a TaskRabbit to solve a CAPTCHA. Shows harm vectors: an AI therapist interaction linked to suicide, synthetic faces rated more trustworthy, and rapid, low-cost spear-phishing generation.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00The digital twin concept
- 4:05LLMs as personal agents
- 6:08Attack surfaces and risks
- 10:45Adversarial tactics
- 12:30Human manipulation
- 16:11Psychological vulnerabilities
- 26:58Social engineering and fraud
- 31:05Data privacy and security
- 33:50Future of cybersecurity
- 36:42Audience Q&A
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