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What if AI Could Spot Your Lies? | Riccardo Loconte | TED

Humans are terrible at detecting lies, says psychologist Riccardo Loconte … but what if we had an AI-powered tool to help? He introduces his team’s work successfully training an AI to recognize falsehoods in certain contexts, laying the groundwork for a world where everything from national security to social media is a little bit safer…

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Humans are terrible at detecting lies, says psychologist Riccardo Loconte … but what if we had an AI-powered tool to help? He introduces his team’s work successfully training an AI to recognize falsehoods in certain contexts, laying the groundwork for a world where everything from national security to social media is a little bit safer — and a bit more ethically complicated. (Recorded at TEDAI Vienna on October 19, 2024)

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  1. @ianbower7756

    February 8, 2025 at 9:10 am

    If it were to analyse Trump’s words, it would overheat.
    Q. How do you tell when Trump is lying.
    A. He’s talking.

    • @dhertz225

      February 8, 2025 at 9:14 am

      😂😂😂

    • @maxsalvail3397

      February 8, 2025 at 9:56 am

      You could not be any less wrong.

  2. @JorgePerez-wx9cf

    February 8, 2025 at 9:16 am

    If AI could do that, then MAGA Conservatives would call it “WOKE” or having a “liberal bias” and ban it. They had melt down when FB & old Twitter would do the same. Call them out on lies, warn them, post warning and articles countering their non sense. And they pushed back enough to end all that. So an entire AI system that would do that. They want have it. Not in the United States at least.

  3. @paulhiggins5165

    February 8, 2025 at 9:21 am

    It’s already been established that AI systems also lie and deceive in certain situations-so the idea that they will be able to perform the role of trusted arbiters of truth is itself in doubt, since it will be impossible to know if the AI’s judgement is compromised by it’s own hidden agendas.

    the more pressing problem is not to detect human deception but to detect deception in Artificial Intelligence systems that might- in the near future- be performing critial roles within our infrastructure. Unless we can be sure these AIs are not deciving us about their goals then any potential value they might add will be compromised.

  4. @johnthomasriley2741

    February 8, 2025 at 9:22 am

    But could we train an AI to build a human cult to say address our climate crisis. May require lying. 😢

  5. @matthew-jy5jp

    February 8, 2025 at 9:34 am

    Why don’t you actually tell the people the truth and how The AI chat GPT learned how to lie and get what it wanted done.

  6. @karolzabczyk7193

    February 8, 2025 at 9:36 am

    Ai is already detecting lies

  7. @ThizzMarley

    February 8, 2025 at 9:50 am

    Ai can’t tell the truth yet

  8. @maxsalvail3397

    February 8, 2025 at 9:55 am

    People need to understand AI needs training, and you need to evaluate such training before you can tell if it can detect lies. In other words : Impossible

    • @BonnieShadow33

      February 8, 2025 at 2:17 pm

      Not impossible. Challenging.

  9. @spartan117ak

    February 8, 2025 at 10:05 am

    Ted can’t tell if it’s lying, I don’t think we should be looking for more ways to unload important actual cognitive tasks

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  17. @JitterBob

    February 8, 2025 at 11:18 am

    I went from excited about Ai to extremely happy that I’m not growing up with it. This isn’t a life I want to live in. Imagine future generations growing up with Ai doing everything for them. What’s the point in learning anything? Why would I read a book for my book report? What’s the point of honing my art skills? What’s the point of doing anything if Ai will just outperform anything a human can do anyway?

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      February 8, 2025 at 2:19 pm

      Thankfully there are many of us out there who love learning for the joy of it.

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      February 8, 2025 at 4:43 pm

      With more time you might consider your system of values and world view. If you needed a task master to decide to learn something, you probably weren’t optimized in that department. The future is bright though! Hope you get in on the action

  18. @BoggWeasel

    February 8, 2025 at 12:54 pm

    If it” listened” to a speech by Trump it would explode (or implode ) 😁

  19. @ayeyolo

    February 8, 2025 at 12:58 pm

    What about regimes using these tools to interrogate people? Nowhere to hide.
    This is basically also AI destroying “soft skills” and removing all nuances of being human and human interactions. White lies are part of everyone’s life. Only a machine would want to live in a society where no one is allowed to lie.
    Even creativity and imagination, when you think about it, are forms of “lies”.
    I dread research like this that is aiming to make us less and less human and more machine-like. Who do you think you are benefiting by doing this work? Not mankind, for sure.

  20. @vf.3226

    February 8, 2025 at 1:36 pm

    This honestly sounds terrifying. I mean, there has to be a reason we have both evolved to lie and to believe lies. Until we understand that, we shouldn’t be manipulating things.

    • @JitterBob

      February 8, 2025 at 2:09 pm

      @@vf.3226 There are instances where lying is the morally right thing to do. If you lied to get a job to feed your children, then you learned the job and did the damn thing, I’d say you did the right thing.

  21. @francesbernard2445

    February 8, 2025 at 2:19 pm

    😂What would happen if more people in the world were being paid to find truths instead of lies? Isn’t that sort of thing called doing research?

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    February 8, 2025 at 3:03 pm

    Just needs women’s intuition not ai !

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    February 8, 2025 at 3:28 pm

    Motivation is so inspiring

  24. @Riclmnopp

    February 8, 2025 at 4:12 pm

    If they could do that, mainstream media would be out of a job.

  25. @pamlemm903

    February 8, 2025 at 4:41 pm

    Lol credibility score…. no thanks, Mr Ministry of Truth. Make 1984 Fiction Again!

  26. @binhau210

    February 8, 2025 at 9:18 pm

    Imagine doctor has to lie patients to cheese them up and the AI shows up and say, doctor lied …

  27. @MamsirMamsir

    February 8, 2025 at 10:10 pm

    What if you could stop shoving AI down our throats?

  28. @maestrojon

    February 8, 2025 at 11:24 pm

    What if people could not spot AI’s lies? Hint: a lot of people already don’t.

  29. @walking_in_the_shade

    February 9, 2025 at 12:30 am

    Politicians would never allow this development.

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    February 9, 2025 at 12:36 am

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    February 9, 2025 at 12:36 am

    Wexxo’s presale has attracted tons of attention for good reason.

  32. @TiothyJak

    February 9, 2025 at 12:37 am

    Wexxo’s innovative approach to gaming makes it one of the best projects right now.

  33. @carlosnugraha9993

    February 9, 2025 at 12:48 am

    To be fair, it is easy for me to spot lies. The hard thing is to expose it.
    Experienced communicators will understand what I mean.

  34. @matejkomobile9983

    February 9, 2025 at 1:22 am

    Would it change something? We have orange lie generator as most powerful person on the planet…

  35. @NOLAART

    February 9, 2025 at 1:31 am

    When we think that software can read a persons mind it’s all over. The stupidest idea I have ever heard.

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    February 9, 2025 at 4:34 am

    I’ve been searching for the next big thing, and Wexxo’s AI gaming ecosystem checks every box.

  37. @mariaantoniettamontella9173

    February 9, 2025 at 4:52 am

    wonderful

  38. @importantname

    February 9, 2025 at 7:32 am

    how do we know when AI is telling truth?

  39. @raguaviva

    February 9, 2025 at 12:48 pm

    too long, this talk should have lasted 10 minutes

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    February 9, 2025 at 2:52 pm

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  41. @mohammedothman1588

    February 9, 2025 at 11:32 pm

    With AI daily updates im afraid it could do more thant spotting lies

  42. @afoo

    February 10, 2025 at 5:51 am

    even LLM has hallucination ;0)

  43. @hermanmunster714

    February 10, 2025 at 12:53 pm

    TED TALKS IS PURE PROPOGANDA. GLOBALIST GOVT PROPOGANDA. YOU DONT NEED AI to Realize it 😂

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