I was in Jeremy's lab as an undergrad and master's student. There was a team of student RA's which was from the communications department and a team of student

I was in Jeremy's lab as an undergrad and master's student. There was a team of student RA's which was from the communications department and a team of student programmers who were CS, EE and Symbolic Systems. Many of the grad students were also in technical fields. Probably the scariest stuff, phenomenologically to me at least, is the gaze studies. Human gaze can be manipulated in VR to create very scary perceptions, avatars and agents can be made to seem as if they are staring at you unblinkingly and following your gaze whereever you are going, etc etc. Isopraxis, which is important to persuasion, can be done trivially and perfectly (that is, noisily), and social space manipulated also trivially.