AI Tools May Soon Manipulate People's Online Decision-Making, Say Researchers

Slashdot reader SysEngineer shared this report from the Guardian:AI tools could be used to manipulate online audiences into making decisions — ranging from what to buy to who to vote for — according to researchers at the University of Cambridge. The paper highlights an emerging new marketplace for "digital signals of intent" — known as the "intention economy" — where AI assistants understand, forecast and manipulate human intentions and sell that information on to compani