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DESCRIPTION:Work-in-Progress hosted by Alexis Morin-Martel\n\nPhD candidate
  at ºÚÁÏÍø±¬³Ô¹Ï\n\nLeacock 927 from 1:30-3:30 on December 18\n\nOpen
  to all\, registration required\n\nTo register please email: alessandra.de
 stison [at] mail.mcgill.ca\n\nPaper abstract\n\nMeaningful online conversa
 tion is increasingly difficult\, not only because of bad-faith arguments o
 r disinformation\, but because we can no longer be sure our interlocutors 
 are even agents. What looks like ordinary human communication can now just
  as easily be generated by a large language model (LLM)\, and empirical st
 udies show that humans are poor at distinguishing LLM-generated from human
 -generated content. I call this increasingly reasonable doubt about whethe
 r others are agents agentic distrust and argue that it constitutes the pri
 mary moral wrong of LLM proliferation. I first consider and reject three f
 amiliar explanations of what is troubling about LLMs: harmful content\, de
 ception\, and their inability to satisfy familiar norms of assertion. None
  captures the distinctive interpersonal harm introduced by agentic distrus
 t. I then argue that agentic distrust generates a potentially intractable 
 moral dilemma. If we treat suspicious interlocutors as bots\, we risk impr
 operly withholding the recognition respect owed to persons. If we treat th
 em as human\, we risk misallocating our moral attention and becoming compl
 icit in destabilizing the norms of interpersonal accountability that make 
 discourse meaningful.\n
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LOCATION:Leacock Building\, CA\, QC\, Montreal\, H3A 2T7\, 855\, rue Sherbr
 ooke Ouest
SUMMARY:Are You Even a Person? LLMs and Agentic Distrust
URL:/jarislowsky-chair/channels/event/are-you-even-per
 son-llms-and-agentic-distrust-369769
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