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CIA Tested Primitive Chatbots For Interrogation In the 1980s
New submitter ted_pikul writes: Newly declassified documents reveal that, 30 years ago, the CIA pitted one of its own agents against an artificial intelligence interrogator in an attempt to see whether or not the technology would be useful. The documents, written in 1983, describe a series of experimental tests (PDF) in which the CIA repeatedly interrogated its own agent using a primitive AI called Analiza. The intelligence on display in the transcript is clearly undeveloped, and seems to contain a mixed bag of predetermined threats made to goad interrogation subjects into spilling their secrets as well as open-ended lines of questioning.
Recent versions were tested on youtube comments but someone forgot to turn it off.
Waiting for an amusing sig.
Alleged Agent: You are trying to frame me.
CIA Eliza: Don't you ever say Hello?
Alleged Agent: I have just been doing my job like any other businessman.
CIA Eliza: What does that suggest to you?
Alleged Agent: You must think I have broken the law.
CIA Eliza: We were discussing you, not me.
Alleged Agent: I only said my government will protest your treatment of me.
CIA Eliza: Why are you concerned about my treatment of you?
Alleged Agent: The State Department doesn't take kindly to this sort of thing.
CIA Eliza: What makes you think that?
Alleged Agent: You are a bastard and you know it.
CIA Eliza: Perhaps you would like to be a bastard and me know it?
> and seems to contain a mixed bag of predetermined threats made to goad interrogation subjects into spilling their secrets
"Now, Mr. Jones, if you do not tell me what we want to know, you may well have the pleasure of finding out why the first four letters of my code name is 'Anal'."
"Twice half-assed makes an ass whole." --Solomon K. Chang
So I'm intrigued by the name. What were her interrogation techniques? Did she use an Analintruder? Cavity searches?
Just another day in Paradise
Except your captor is never actually a machine, its humans, who are using the machine the same way they would use a car battery or water board. In the end, the purpose is to get confessions.
In fact, at this, most torture techniques, and even many interrogation techniques that amount to little more than mental torture are quite effective. One of my favorites is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R...
Notice throughout how the techniques approaches with the assumption of guilt and proceedes accordingly. It should be of no shock that many innocent people will make false confessions confronted with an officer using.
In the end, no matter what, the computer is a prop, its all props designed to help elicit confessions. That is what they do, confessions lead to convictions, and convictions are the numbers they need to report, so that is what they get. You get what you measure....so you have interrogators building props.
I assure you, they cry at night that they can't just use their polygraph prop.
"I opened my eyes, and everything went dark again"
I don't think there's an awful lot of "humaneness" in most people who are prepared to be torturers.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
"Do you admit that Oh Please Stop Drilling My Heelbones associates you to the plot to assassinate american diplomats?"
"Tell me more about You Dumb Machine, I've Already Confessed. Is he one of your associates?"
"You've already admitted that I Won't Tell You Anything, if you can tell us more about Beta_testentry_2_remove_this_before_field_testing we won't hurt your family"