Dr. Raffaele Ciriello

Thomas Kieffer- yeah excellent point, I think it's actually two sided like first.

Thomas Kieffer- US, the one who initiates this you're also running the risk that the Ai might misunderstand you because the Ai it's ultimately the way how these systems work they're trained.

on historical data, which always only works for a very narrow slice of the population, typically white men or white rich people in the West, right?

So if you're not in that demographic, you're already facing the first hurdle because the AI might not actually act in your best interest because it's trained on the wrong data.

Because it then goes out and does something based on the information you gave it and just kind of like based on the statistical patterns, gives that information to other people.

And then, of course, in the selection process, it might also be biased and say, hey, oh, that person has the wrong gender, ethnicity or name or appearance.

That's not exactly the right match.

Right.

The thing with that is it's probably going to.

mirror existing biases that we have.

We know from dating research that people tend to prefer mates of a similar demographic.

So they might be open to having friends from other ethnicities and demographics, but not so much for mates.

That's just statistically a tendency.

And so that dynamic might, of course, also

be part of what potential dates are selected for you, right?

And then, you know, there's been all this talk about, you know, black women or Asian men being less successful.

That's probably not going to improve much for them based on this logic, right?

obviously you already give away a lot of sensitive information of yourself to participate in dating apps that's the deal otherwise you can participate you know you have to put in some information about yourself there but the potential for that information to somehow leak because your ai to talks to somebody else's ai and then you know exchanges information about you and that's somehow ending up

in the wrong hands is something that I would be concerned about.

The initial risk is you have to put in a lot of sensitive information for it to work.