Dietmar Fischer

Her advice is honest.

And when she says this chocolate cake is good, people believe her.

Now imagine someone builds a robot that looks like her, sounds like her, and stands in the bakery window, giving cake recommendations.

The robot says, buy this cake, it is made with love.

Very touching.

Tiny violin.

But here is the problem.

The real baker did not say it.

The robot was programmed by the shop owner to sell the most profitable cake, not the best cake.

That is the metropolis problem in cake form.

The danger is not that the robot can talk about cake.

The danger is that it borrows human trust.

People think they are listening to someone they know, but they are actually being guided by a machine serving someone else's goal.

Modern AI can do the same with text, images, voices, videos and recommendations.

It can look like helpful advice, but behind it there may be a hidden instruction.

Sell more, keep people clicking, shape an opinion, push a product or make something fake feel real.

So the simple rule is this.

When AI serves the baker, it can be useful.

It can help write recipes, organize orders, or suggest better cake names than brown rectangle number four.

But when AI pretends to be the baker, we should be careful.