{"id":6274,"date":"2023-03-25T17:00:20","date_gmt":"2023-03-25T17:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=6274"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:20:33","slug":"opinion-ai-unintended-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/opinion-ai-unintended-consequences\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: AI \u2014 unintended consequences"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"6274\" class=\"elementor elementor-6274\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-2a142bc0 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"2a142bc0\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-203ff75f elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"203ff75f\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>As far back as the early 1960s, computer scientists have toyed with the idea that computers might one day possess artificial intelligence (AI) that would surpass and \u2014 perhaps \u2014 supplant human intelligence.<\/p><p>When I taught computer science in the early 1980s at Bakersfield College, I introduced my students to Eliza. Eliza was developed by Joseph Weizenbaum at the MIT AI Laboratory between 1964 and 1966. Eliza was a computer psychoanalyst, and I had my students use the program just to get used to interacting with the computer.<\/p><p>The \u201cschool\u201d of psychoanalysis to which Eliza subscribed was Rogerian. Carl Rogers developed the \u201cclient-centered\u201d approach to the treatment that Freud called \u201ctalking therapy.\u201d Rogerian psychoanalysts generally echoed back the comments that their clients made. In like fashion, when my students interacted with Eliza, the computer would \u201cecho back\u201d to them using a method that Weizenbaum called \u201cpattern matching.\u201d So, if a student typed \u201cI\u2019m feeling stress because of my astronomy class,\u201d Eliza would respond, \u201cWhy do you think that your astronomy class is causing you stress?\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As far back as the early 1960s, computer scientists have toyed with the idea that computers might one day possess artificial intelligence (AI) that would surpass and \u2014 perhaps \u2014 supplant human intelligence. When I taught computer science in the early 1980s at Bakersfield College, I introduced my students to Eliza. Eliza was developed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-6274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-technology"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}