Ethical Issues of Advanced AI Assistants
The Ethics of Advanced AI Assistants
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The paper defines advanced AI assistants as agents that, through natural language interfaces, plan and execute sequences of actions across domains on behalf of users, and examines their opportunities and ethical and social risks. The analysis covers value alignment, safety and malicious use, manipulation and persuasion with users, anthropomorphism, trust and privacy, as well as fair access, misinformation, economic and environmental impacts, and evaluation under society-scale deployment. The paper concludes with recommendations for researchers, developers, policymakers, and public stakeholders.