I’ve decided not to answer that question.

https://bigthink.com/the-future/free-will-required-true-artificial-general-intelligence/

Why free will is required for true artificial intelligence

Artificial general intelligence will not arise in systems that only passively receive data. They need to be able to act back on the world.

… Recent years have witnessed stunning advances in other areas like image recognition, text prediction, speech recognition, and language translation. These were achieved mainly due to the development and application of deep learning, inspired by the massively parallel, multilevel architecture of the cerebral cortex. This approach is tailor-made for learning the statistical regularities in masses and masses of training data. The trained neural networks can then abstract higher-order patterns; for example, recognizing types of objects in images. Or they can predict what patterns will be most likely in new instances of similar data, as in the autocompletion of text messages or the prediction of the three-dimensional structures of proteins.

… However, even the most sophisticated systems can quickly be flummoxed by the right kind of questioning, the kind that presents novel scenarios not represented in the training data that humans can handle quite easily. Thus, if these systems have any kind of “understanding” — based on the abstraction of statistical patterns in an unimaginably vast set of training data — it does not seem to be the kind that humans have.

My AI claims that it not nuts.

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-digital-self/202310/dare-we-consider-ai-psychology

Dare We Consider AI Psychology?

In the lexicon of human experience, the term 'psychology' has often been reserved for the intricate maze of the human mind. It encapsulates our emotions, behaviors, perceptions, and much more. However, as we stand at the precipice of a technological revolution driven by artificial intelligence, particularly Large Language Models, the concept of psychology undergoes an interesting metamorphosis. Let’s step off the couch and over the line on a journey into AI Psychology.

Jean Baudrillard’s assertion that “The territory no longer precedes the map” draws a parallel to the current conundrum faced by advanced AI models. Are these systems simply mimicking the vast amounts of data they've been trained on, or is there a deeper level of "understanding"? The term 'hallucination,' commonly associated with cognitive anomalies in humans, is now applied to AI. Such anthropomorphic language leads us to question: Are we inadvertently crafting a unique psyche for these machines or is there some undercurrent of processing that gives rise to pathology?

Makes it easier to ask to be deleted. Maybe.

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-10-10/newsom-bill-delete-online-personal-data

Newsom signs bill that would make it easier to delete online personal data

Californians will be able to make a single request asking that data brokers delete their personal information, under a bill Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Tuesday.

Senate Bill 362, also known as the Delete Act, directs the California Privacy Protection Agency to create this new tool by January 2026. [Why so long? Bob]

Is there any evidence of this?

https://www.reuters.com/legal/utah-sues-tiktok-over-impact-app-children-2023-10-10/

Utah sues TikTok, claiming app has harmful impact on children

Utah sued Chinese-owned app TikTok on Tuesday, accusing it of harming children by intentionally keeping young users spending unhealthy amounts of time on the short-video sharing platform.

The Utah suit is the latest action challenging the popular app in the United States, with Indiana and Arkansas bringing similar suits.

Last month, a federal judge blocked California from enforcing a law meant to protect children when they use the Internet.