Communications Psychology (Jun 2024)

How and why psychologists should respond to the harms associated with generative AI

  • Laura G. E. Smith,
  • Richard Owen,
  • Alicia Cork,
  • Olivia Brown

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s44271-024-00110-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 3

Abstract

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Innovations in generative AI to create human-like text, images, and videos can cause social, psychological, and political harms. Here, we explain how psychologists can mobilize their extensive theoretical and empirical resources to better anticipate, understand, and mitigate those harms.