Reactions to Google’s Duplex demonstration at Google I/O

Via Bloomberg’s Mark Bergen:

“Horrifying,” Zeynep Tufekci, a professor and frequent tech company critic, wrote on Twitter about Duplex. “Silicon Valley is ethically lost, rudderless and has not learned a thing.”

Robotic voices should always sound “synthetic” rather than human, wrote Stewart Brand, an author who advocates for long-term thinking and responsibility in the face of advancing technology and other trends. “Successful spoofing of any kind destroys trust.”

As I stated yesterday, I hope these concerns are being taken into consideration. Sometimes creators need to take a step back and ask if they should do something even if they can.