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Should we trust what ChatGPT and other BOTS tell us?

Very powerful Large Language Models such as ChatGPT, as well as 'Personal Assistants' like Alexa and Siri, provide purported information on a large range of topics in response to queries. Is this a source of information similar to other people telling us things; or is it fundamentally different? I explore these issues, in particular the troubling 'responsibility gap' for such AI testimony.

Now an Emeritus Fellow in Philosophy, Lizzie was a Visiting Professor at the University of Notre Dame, and before that a Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy at Magdalen College, Oxford, and a University Lecturer in Philosophy at Oxford University. She worked over the years on developing a set of ideas about testimony, and published over 30 papers on this and related topics. Her early papers argue against the 'fundamentalism' about testimony advocated by Tony Coady and others, and for a 'local reductionist' account of the epistemology of testimony. More recently, she has focussed on the nature of the speech act of telling, and the social norms governing it.

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