Jun 23, 2023
Dr Oldfield speaks on Dehumanisation and the future of Technology at the International Conference on AI and the Digital Economy (CADE 2023). You can read the paper here.
What is dehumanisation:
It is a way to deprive someone of their humanity
To make others a target
To drive hate
It’s used to get groups to buy things to be superior to others. To pit communities online against each other.
The aim of dehumanisation is to present a group as being ‘less than’ the self-perceived superior group and to force either increased division to justify an existing belief system, or create a belief system in order to distributed to the population or to force compliance of a perceived inferior group.
Algorithms can create echo chambers to satisfy users that they are within a community that agrees with them, thereby reinforcing their beliefs
This can affect vulnerable or socially excluded people in a much more negative manner.
This widely used technique allows us to be exploited by using our own negativity against us.
Think Harry Potter dementors but instead of killing you they are emptying your wallet and using up your time to get money for more of your clicks.