Manipulation

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McCord: AI companions are an incredible platform for user manipulation
“This is a this is a software system that is programmed by another. And so it is very easy to modulate the extent to which and the way in which it delivers said recognition. So it's a, it's an incredible platform for manipulation. In other words, it's not an au…”
Brendan McCord Jun 19, 2025 ▶ 56:24 AI Expert: What Scares Me Most (Here's What I Found): Brendan McCord
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Fisher: Manipulative tears must not alter how you address someone
“And there, but there are also people that use tears to manipulate, and there are people that can whip up tears on A dime to get what they want, but that all the more highlights the importance of that does not change how you are going to talk to them.”
Jefferson Fisher Apr 23, 2025 ▶ 1:03:00 Number 1 Communication Expert: Stop Doing This… People Will Like You More | Jefferson Fisher
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Greene: Dangerous narcissists do not perceive themselves as manipulative
“People who are like this, they don't think that they're narcissists. They don't think that they're evil. They don't think that what they're doing is manipulative, or they're even operating by laws. These are just things that come naturally to them.”
Robert Greene Apr 16, 2025 ▶ 21:09 Manipulation Expert: Success Isn’t Luck, It’s Rigged | Robert Greene
Cialdini: Influence Highlights Existing Principles While Manipulation Counterfeits Them
“And for me, influence involves pointing to them where they naturally exist. That is, informing people into assent by simply raising the profile of that principle in one way or another in your communication. Manipulation involves the fabrication or manufacture …”
Robert Cialdini Oct 19, 2021 ▶ 3:44 #122 Robert Cialdini - The Principles of Persuasion
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Sokhenko: Faking Brand Values to Manipulate Consumers Will Inevitably Fail
“You should be really good in manipulation then, because people can feel that, and people are not stupid. They can feel when you're real and when you're not. I'm pretty sure, like, it's gonna fail, for sure.”
Katerina Sokhenko Sep 16, 2021 ▶ 14:04 Gen Z Spotted Your Fake Values Before You Finished the Post
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Zaremba: OpenAI focuses robotics research on object manipulation
“So in terms of robotics, we are working on manipulation. We think that manipulation is the complete, it's the one of the parts of robotics, which is the most unresolved.”
Wojciech Zaremba May 17, 2017 ▶ 2:03 An AI Primer with Wojciech Zaremba · Y Combinator

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