I go back and forth on this. I think there are some advantages and also major disadvantages. In particular I think lie detection is probably good (with high error bars) but general mind-reading is probably bad. In particular the latter has a similar suite of costs and benefits to lie detection but additionally is on the on-ramp to make it much easier to increase human manipulation, which is bad both from an AI takeover perspective and a concentration of power perspective, without commensurate benefits.
I go back and forth on this. I think there are some advantages and also major disadvantages. In particular I think lie detection is probably good (with high error bars) but general mind-reading is probably bad. In particular the latter has a similar suite of costs and benefits to lie detection but additionally is on the on-ramp to make it much easier to increase human manipulation, which is bad both from an AI takeover perspective and a concentration of power perspective, without commensurate benefits.